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Women's Rights & Issues

guillaumeb

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Reply to niyad (Original post)

Tue Oct 31, 2017, 01:28 PM

Oct 2017

One small illustration:
In French, a mixed sex group always takes the male pronoun and applicable adjective. We use ils/elles for the English word they. A group of 1 male and any number of females would use ils when speaking.

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Man Made Language (Dr. Dale Spender) [View all] niyad Oct 2017 OP

Recommended. guillaumeb Oct 2017 #1

sad, is it not? niyad Oct 2017 #2

Sad, and illustrative of the point. guillaumeb Oct 2017 #3

that works!! niyad Nov 2017 #4