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<div style="text-align: center; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">=========================================================================<br>L O W L A N D S - L - 09 July 2008 - Volume 03<br style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);">
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<span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">From: </span><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="HcCDpe"><span class="EP8xU" style="color: rgb(204, 0, 96);">Mark Dreyer</span> <span class="lDACoc"><<a href="mailto:mrdreyer@lantic.net">mrdreyer@lantic.net</a>></span></span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Subject: </span><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="HcCDpe">LL-L "Grammar" 2008.07.08 (05) [E]<br><br></span><div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" id="1fef" class="ArwC7c ckChnd">
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<div><span>Beste Jonny:</span></div>
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<div><span>Subject: LL-L Grammar</span></div>
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<div><span>You asked:</span></div>
<div><span>How do you in English use the gender of the word
<b>_person_</b> <i>(neuter)</i> in the following context?</span></div>
<div><span></span><span>Just imagine, you watched a person
which (or who?) is suspected to have been involved in a crime. Because it
was dark, you could not see, if it had been a man or a woman. How do
you tell it the police constable? </span><span>"I saw a tall <b>person</b> with
a black hat and a grey coat. (_He_? _She_? _It_?) ran down the street to the
left side." It should be 'it', I guess? But it sounds in a certain way strange
for me. </span><span>(If I would replace _person_ by 'individual' my problem
wouldn't be solved!)</span></div>
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<div><span>Must you use the word person? There is a more
accessible & less specific term of Anglo-Saxon origin as opposed to the
Latin; 'someone'.</span></div>
<div><span>I would say this:</span></div>
<div><span>"I saw <strong>someone</strong> tall with a black
hat & a grey coat run down the street to the left side."</span></div>
<div><span>It seems to me that some time in the past the
English language not only dumped gender-specific terminology but simultaneously
& necessarily adopted constructions avoiding the necessity of using them.
These are more familiar in informal English.</span></div>
<div><span></span> </div>
<div><span>Mind you, one does the same in
Afrikaans:</span></div>
<div><span>"Toe sien ek <strong>iemand</strong> lank met 'n
swarte hoed en gryse jas straat-af aan die linker kant
weghardloop."</span></div>
<div><span></span> </div>
<div><span>Die Uwe,</span></div>
<div><span>Mark</span></div></div>
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