OT: City Names

From: Merle K. Peirce <at258_at_osfn.org>
Date: Fri Apr 16 20:59:40 1999

>
> > >all this masculine/feminine/neuter gender and case stuff. Confused the
> hell
> > >out of me.
> > m/f/n is no that difficult. Just different from language to language.
>
> Well, no not really. Simply doesn't exist in English. Everything is um,
> neuter I guess, we don't have a term for it that we didn't pinch from
> another language actually.

We certainly do have gender, but usually the forms are identical.
Inflection in English is very restricted, compared say to German or the
classical languages. Since our adjectives have the same form for each
gender, it's not noticeable, and hasn't been that way for say 800 years
or so.
Received on Fri Apr 16 1999 - 20:59:40 BST