Snowman or snowwoman?
Kazuto Matsumura
kazuto.matsumura at NIFTY.COM
Sun Jan 24 04:58:37 UTC 2010
Just for fun. Which is the 'default' gender of a figure of a person made
from packed snow in your native language? For a majority of colleagues,
the answer is 'male', I presume.
I've noticed it's 'female' for the Estonian colleagues: lumememm 'snow
granny'. What other languages are feminist in this respect?
Incidentally, it's sunny today and there's absolutely no snow around
here in Tokyo.
Best,
Kazuto
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Kazuto Matsumura
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http://www.kmatsum.info/
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