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5. Generally linguists refer the language distinction as "gender"

Tue May 23, 2017, 11:13 AM

May 2017

Which is a purely grammatical difference. And has nothing (or little) to do with sex. Of course, you can be a misogynist in any language.

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Are the Latin based languages such as Spanish sexist? [View all] Ligyron May 2017 OP

I don't speak any of the Romance languages... JayhawkSD May 2017 #2

I don't speak them well either, lol. Ligyron May 2017 #6

The only truth there, Sailor65x1 May 2017 #4

Yeah, I don't speak any of them well. Ligyron May 2017 #7

Generally linguists refer the language distinction as "gender" rock May 2017 #5

As a teacher of Spanish, I'd say it is sexist. Lifelong Protester May 2017 #8

Language evolves. LWolf Jan 2018 #10

Message auto-removed Name removed Sep 2018 #11