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jmclnx 15 hours ago

One important thing not mentioned. English has no genders except in extremely rare cases. Other Indo-European languages are full of genders, like female tables, male autos, etc.

Trying to learn Spanish in high school, it was genders that confused me the most. Safe to say I just remember some words at this point.

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dfawcus 14 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

English only has sex, not gender. He, She, It.

The commonly cited example of referring to ships as 'she' is simply an affectation, grammatically a ship is an it.

Or can you provide another example I may have overlooked?

jmclnx 6 hours ago | parent [-]

I was thinking of ship, I am far from a language scholar.