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Magnus Olsson wrote:

> In article <W4ge7.14145$e5.2010127@newsb.telia.net>,
> Marek Teraszkiewicz <eraszkiewicz@usanet.com> wrote:
> >> >5) There is no grammatical gender in English. You don't have to worry
> about
> >> >making sure that the adjective has the same gender as the noun it
> describes.
> >> There are some gender issues, for instance when you refer to objects
> >> or ships.
> >I can see what you're driving at but the fact that sailors and weapon
> >fetischists refer to their ships and guns using personal feminine pronouns
> >doesn't constitute grammatical gender.
> There is still grammatical gender for personal pronouns.

I'm not sure that's gender in the same sense, though.  It only pertains to
which people are allowed to be referenced by that pronoun, and affects nothing
else about the sentence.  "Gendering," as I understand it, pertains not only to
the noun name itself, but also to the agreement of verb, article, adjective,
and possibly other parts of speech I'm forgetting.

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