"like" avoidance/correction

[sagehen]

>True, Alison. But don't you miss the old days when "gender" had to do
>only with grammar? I've even seen "gender" in its (relatively) new
>American meaning used in Russian and transliterated as "gender," i.e.
>using Cyrillic letters that, transliterated back into Latin letters,
>read "gender." I would've expected the Russians to use "dzhendr,"
>which yields, for all practical purposes, precisely the same
>pronunciation as "gender" does in English. Unless, of course, you say
>"jinduh," as I do.
>
>-Wilson
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Just as a matter of taste (for which there's no accounting), I don't care
much for the word -- qua word -- "gender," but I do like the development
which its extension  represents; i.e., that the roles, &c., historically
assigned to the  sexes are not necessarily intrinsic & ineluctable,  but as
arbitrary as the genders of nouns.
Alison
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