Timeline for Does the English language have a grammatical gender?
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| Mar 17, 2016 at 18:20 | comment | added | Era | @curiousdannii Source? My information was from a book on English for speakers of French, although I don't have it in front of me and don't remember the title off the top of my head. | |
| Mar 17, 2016 at 11:15 | comment | added | curiousdannii | Actress is definitely not a gendered noun. | |
| Mar 16, 2016 at 2:28 | comment | added | ghostarbeiter | @Era, is "actress" really a gendered noun in the grammatical sense? Consider German Mädchen which refers to a female human being but is a neuter noun, and can be associated with the pronouns "es" (it) or "sie" (she). Or "cow", which is a female animal but usually associated with the pronoun "it", although "she" is sometimes possible. So one could even argue that all English nouns are gramatically genderless even though some of them refer to beings with biological gender and can be substituted by gendered pronouns. | |
| Mar 16, 2016 at 2:07 | comment | added | Azor Ahai -him- | I down voted because that line made an otherwise clear and concise answer not so good. I may also have misread your tone. Anyway, I retracted my down vote. | |
| Mar 16, 2016 at 2:06 | comment | added | ghostarbeiter | As suggested, I've removed the "this seems absurd" phrase and added a final one-sentence paragraph instead. | |
| Mar 16, 2016 at 2:03 | history | edited | ghostarbeiter | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Mar 15, 2016 at 23:41 | comment | added | DCShannon | This all seems fine, except perhaps for "this seems absurd". Don't think it's really justified downvoting just for that. I won't, anyway. You could literally just delete that sentence and this would be a pretty good, concise answer. | |
| Mar 15, 2016 at 20:28 | comment | added | Azor Ahai -him- | -1. Three genders is the correct analysis of English, even though the system is not as extensive as German or Russian. It is not absurd. | |
| Mar 15, 2016 at 20:06 | comment | added | Era | Not so, as there are nouns and adjectives with gendered forms e.g. actress/actor, blond/blonde. | |
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| Mar 15, 2016 at 14:56 | history | answered | ghostarbeiter | CC BY-SA 3.0 |