Timeline for Does the English language have a grammatical gender?
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| Mar 18, 2016 at 12:58 | comment | added | vlad | many languages simply state that when we refer to a specific object we use "he" or "she" and not "it" using "it" would be wrong. in Russian the example of this rule will be word Coffee. specifically because Russian language have gender based quantity pronouns. you can say "odin"(one) in muscular conotation or "odno"(also one) in neutered non-gender connotation. dva(two) as neatral and/or muscular use and dve(also two) as feminine use. | |
| Mar 18, 2016 at 12:48 | comment | added | vlad | in many languages, there is a perceived gender to an object. as when we use "she" targeted to a ship or a car. I understand now that my example is not too clear using it with this specific objects simply because in English they both can be perceived as muscular (he) BUT compared to Russian, "a pencil " translates as "Karandash" which by grammatical rules is a muscular as in (he) but "a pen" translates as "ruchka" which by the same rules is a feminine (she). it was an example | |
| Mar 17, 2016 at 18:47 | comment | added | peterG | "For example, 'a pencil' or 'a pen' - you can not identify the gender of these words by simply reading them." - It's hard to understand what you mean here. They do not have a gender at all. | |
| Mar 15, 2016 at 19:41 | history | edited | ColleenV | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
Made capitalization consistent, moved the answer up toward the top, some very minor fixes to ensure the meaning is clear, broke into paragraphs to make it more readable.
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| Mar 15, 2016 at 17:51 | comment | added | ColleenV | You need 50 reputation to comment anywhere, otherwise you can only comment under your own post. Sometimes the warnings as to why your comment wasn't posted don't show up. My mobile is particularly bad about letting me know when I've entered too many characters. The help center has a list of privileges and the reputation you need for them. | |
| Mar 15, 2016 at 17:01 | comment | added | vlad | thanks, but it was no my reputation that got in the way, it my browser. it kept loading new pages for login where it should be redirecting the same page. so I was clicking different links thinking I clicked the wrong one by mistake. anyhow I fix the post hopefully to be satisfactory for real answer classification now. | |
| Mar 15, 2016 at 17:00 | history | edited | vlad | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
added 419 characters in body
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| Mar 15, 2016 at 16:58 | comment | added | ColleenV | I went ahead and flagged this for a moderator to look at - maybe they can convert it to a comment for you. It would be better to build up your reputation so you may comment properly. If you build up some reputation on Russian Language that will give you enough reputation here to comment. You get 100 reputation if you're trusted on another SE site. | |
| Mar 15, 2016 at 16:43 | comment | added | vlad | Nathan Tuggy >> if you mean me :-), I am sorry but I meant to post a comment under ghostarbeiter post, not an answer. stackexchange some times works in funny way for me. I can certainly edit the post but I am not a language aficionado so I usually refrain making an absolute statements about grammar. also I think my post does answer part of the OP question, if indirectly. | |
| S Mar 15, 2016 at 16:38 | history | suggested | ghostarbeiter | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
muscular --> masculine
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| Mar 15, 2016 at 16:18 | comment | added | Nathan Tuggy | Welcome to ELL! While this is an interesting reply to another answer, it doesn't seem to answer the question itself very directly. Can you edit to make it self-sufficient? | |
| Mar 15, 2016 at 16:17 | review | Low quality posts | |||
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| Mar 15, 2016 at 16:03 | comment | added | ghostarbeiter | No problem. You explain well and could contribute at russian.stackexchange if you have time. | |
| Mar 15, 2016 at 16:00 | comment | added | vlad | sorry misunderstood. but it also difficult to overlook that English does have three genders semantically. English have three pronouns that are used to identify object gender. what English luck is a specific identifiers for object names that can be used to identify gender without use of pronoun. similar to how it is done in Russian. | |
| Mar 15, 2016 at 15:57 | comment | added | ghostarbeiter | I know that Russian has three genders. My point was that it seems exaggerated to say that English also has three genders. It is not a helpful description of English. | |
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| Mar 15, 2016 at 15:31 | review | First posts | |||
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| Mar 15, 2016 at 15:30 | history | answered | vlad | CC BY-SA 3.0 |