la leche

Miguel Carrasquer Vidal mcv at wxs.nl
Fri Feb 2 01:30:12 UTC 2001


On Thu, 25 Jan 2001 13:21:37 -0800, Max Dashu <maxdashu at LanMinds.Com>
wrote:

>>>> Why shouldn't a product of the female breast become feminine?

>>> If anything, it's the masculine forms that need explaining.

>What, then, are we to make of a feminine form for "penis" in Greek (i psoli)?

In Spanish, words for penis (e.g. polla) are mostly feminine, and
words for vagina mostly masculine (e.g. coño).

===========Miguel Carrasquer Vidal
mcv at wxs.nl



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