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RE: Do nouns have sexes?
Hmm, to me it sounds like absorbation is experiencing a form of synesthesia.

I don't associate genders with words and probably not even with colours, although I do see every letter and number as having its specific colour.
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RE: Do nouns have sexes?
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Lies! Can you really tell me pink is a man?
O common pink is the new white everyone knows that...

Hard question though... But what you think about the gender of nouns is probably related to your native language... and seeing Dutch has the most screwed up noungenderness (you know what I mean...) of any language I know... that is probably the reason why I think it is a hard question...
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RE: Do nouns have sexes?
No, but I associate numbers/colours/letters with one another :P
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RE: Do nouns have sexes?
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Sounds too much like French with the masculine and feminine, they're just words :undecided:.

Yeah, in French everything has sexes. They do in Spanish too (But not the same :dodgy:)

Anyways, I don't think they do in english :/
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i came to this conclusion: english sucks :zippy:
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RE: RE: Do nouns of sexes?
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Sounds too much like French with the masculine and feminine, they're just words :undecided:.

In Latin words have sexes and all languages based on it have sexes too.
German has sexes too.
Almost all languages I know execept English have words with different sexes.
French has only male and female.
Dutch has only neutral and not neutral(male+female)

I think it's common people have sexed words.
Some words just belong to men like war and strength like make-up and beauty to women. (no intention for sexismn on purpose)
However the words above aren't sexed to the right gender in some languages.

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bellum = war
-um = neutral
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RE: Do nouns have sexes?
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i came to this conclusion: english sucks :zippy:
complex languages>*
Amen. (Y)

Latin-based languages FTW!

But still, I couldn't give a damn. :P

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RE: Do nouns have sexes?
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Originally posted by hmaster
Sounds too much like French with the masculine and feminine, they're just words :undecided:.
It is...its just that we say masculine and feminine now...we used to say 'gender', which is a synonym for sex.
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Now I have your attention using the word sex
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He, him, his, actor, prince, king, etc. are all male.

She, her, actress, princess, queen, etc. are all female.
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He, him, his, actor, prince, king, etc. are all male.

She, her, actress, princess, queen, etc. are all female.
oh, that solves all of my doubts.
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RE: Do nouns have sexes?
a table is a fucknig table. bollocks to it being a man or woman in french or whatever.
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