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SwissTony

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14. I think technically they are still gendered, but we don't need to adjust articles and adjectives

Reply to jmowreader (Reply #11)

Wed Mar 14, 2012, 04:40 AM

Mar 2012

as, say, the French and Germans do.

I've got vague memories of old English dictionaries listing the gender of nouns. None of my modern ones do. Maybe it's just old age.

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