Heard on the Olympics broadcast

[Mark Mandel]

Or to repeat ten times before breakfast: Gender is not sex. Gender is not
sex. ...

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On Sun, Aug 10, 2008 at 3:56 PM, Wilson Gray <hwgray at gmail.com> wrote:

> What might be useful is a return the study of other languages as
> primarily an intellectual exercise. The fuller story is that only
> those students at the Language School who had not had any previous
> experience of a language with (true) grammatical gender had their
> minds blown by the fact that, in Russian, if a nominal has grammatical
> gender G, then all adjectives modifying that nominal must exhibit that
> same feature, even when the nominal is a Predicate Nominative of
> gender G referring to a Subject Nominative of gender H.
>

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