"Junges Girl mit Mama und Papa" [NT]

[Joel S. Berson]

At 11/6/2010 06:56 PM, Wilson Gray wrote:
>Precisely! That is exactly the feature of Japanese society - no
>grammatical gender in that society's language - that makes it the
>perfect exemplar of equality between the genders in words referencing
>human beings in the English-speaking world.

But not, of course, the perfect exemplar of equality between the
genders in their treatment in the Japanese world.

Joel

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