"like" avoidance/correction

[Wilson Gray]

Ah. An excellent point.

-Wilson

On 4/28/07, sagehen <sagehen at westelcom.com> wrote:
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> >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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