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by: Josh

Tue, 11 Oct 2005 23:15:37 +0000

Awesome. That helps explain things. Thanks, J.

by: J

Sun, 09 Oct 2005 22:48:57 +0000

English is more of a germanic language, really. Definite latinate influences in some vocabulary (mainly inherited from the French/Normans who conquered England), but the grammar is Anglo-Saxon/Germanic.

by: Josh

Fri, 07 Oct 2005 11:44:56 +0000

CM:

I’m probably way off base here, but didn’t English, Spanish, etc. all come from Latin? And didn’t Latin have gendered nouns? I was just wondering why Spanish still has them and English doesn’t.

Anon. L.S.:

Gendered nouns would be fun, but what I could really use is a neutral pronoun to use instead of he/she.

Also: Exactly. Computer geeks are (mostly) male. Computers are female. Maybe you haven’t spent enough time around computer people to understand the attachment that develops between a geek and his computadora. It’s a bond only a new processor line can break…

by: Anonymous Law Student

Fri, 07 Oct 2005 04:32:42 +0000

I think we need gendered nouns, right freaking now. I’ve always wondered who gets to pick the gender of new nouns in Spanish? Like for instance: computadora. Why is the computer a female gendered item? Most computer geeks are guys!

by: CM

Fri, 07 Oct 2005 02:52:20 +0000

LLMs are way cool.

Why should English have gendered nouns? It never has.