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Old 02-18-2011, 04:48 PM   #11
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Originally Posted by Linus View Post
The question that I often have is: how is how we write genderized? Especially in english which doesn't have "gendered" versions of words (excluding the he/she, etc.) For example a nation in french can be male (e.g., Le Canada) but there isn't anything like that in english (e.g., Canada).
Exactly.

Then the question becomes, what paradigm are they using? Me thinks, it's the same old, same old.
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