Federal agency denies funding to professor who will not use gender-neutral pronouns

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petros said:
People think in pictures. A universal language would be pictograms.



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But try to learn to pronounce pictograms. for example, the Chinese word for man is 人 and is written in pinyin as 'ren.' ren is much easier, don't you think?

Even though the Chinese and Japanese share many pictograms in common, they still can't guess how they're pronounced and so phonetic script is still easier even then.
 
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lone wolf said:
French has lots of gender based language. I doubt if it's going to be genetically sanitized any time soon
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Pretty much every European language except English is gender based. Which I always found to be kind of stupid and never did get an answer as to why, or more importantly how to distinguish between a feminine and masculine noun without the le or la in front of it.
For example, "la maison". Now what exactly about a "maison" makes it feminine thus requiring the use of the definite article "la"?
And what about words that begin with a vowel like l'auto or l'eau? How can you tell if those are masculine or feminine nouns? Or does it really matter since they begin with a vowel?
 
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One reason why I didn't do well in French class - I just couldn't get the hang of the gender part - simply didn't make sense to me at all. Mind you, I doubt that I would have done well in learning any language - just not my thing.


My g/f in Germany (who I've mentioned here before) speaks 3 languages and was learning a 4th (so maybe it's 4 now - I'll have to ask her next time I speak with her) but I was simply amazed to see how she could jump from 1 language to another so easily. When she first came to Canada, she barely spoke English but picked it up really quickly. Guess she, unlike me, has a "knack" for languages.
 
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