[HPFGU-OTChatter] WANTED: Grammar Experts

[Ladi lyndi]

> Mycropht says:
> 
> Pronouns are really an awkward part of English.
>  They've mutated down to us
> from Norman French and we've
> polluted them so much that it's hard to get
> them to make sense.
> 

Lynn:

Oh, come on, pronouns also make things a lot more
fun when you're trying to learn a different
language.

For example, in Dutch, the word for girl isn't
masculine or feminine, but neuter.  So, when
referring to the girl, do you use the pronoun her
since you know that a girl is, in reality,
feminine or do you refer to the girl as an it
since the word itself is neuter.  Our language
class managed to confuse our teacher over this
vary question.  I decided about 5 minutes into
the discussion that if the word boys was deemed
masculine then the word girls should be feminine
and I was going to refer to a girl as her no
matter what.  LOL

Lynn
(who, after 4 years is still thoroughly confused
with gender nouns in the Dutch language.  How in
the world a masculine or feminine noun suddenly
become neuter by the adding of a je at the end of
the word still escapes me)

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