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Re: OT: a dumb query? pls humor me



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Roberto C. Sanchez wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 14, 2007 at 06:32:38PM +0100, Joe Hart wrote:
>> Sorry, Michelle to me is feminine name.  Michel on the other hand is
>> masculine. If I was wrong, I apologize.  How am I to tell which pronoun
>> to use when I cannot see the person?  I can blame the English language
>> for having personal pronouns of both sexes, but most languages do.
>>
> Of course, there is also Spanish, where in addition to pronouns having
> gender, so does every single noun :-)
> 
> Regards,
> 
> -Roberto
> 
Since this is already a off-topic thread...

So does Dutch, German, French, Italian....Now that I stop and think
about it, I can't think of any that don't.


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