Dec. 22nd, 2006

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Conversation tonight is about language. It started with the OED, rounded the corner with wondering how many words a "normal" dictionary has (such as the collegiate Webster) and ended up wondering about how many genders each language has. We're pretty sure the Romance languages have only two, though Italian and Portugese may have a neutral (none of us know), but have no idea about any others, except English, which is how this whole question came up. My mum commented on how nice it is that English doesn't have any genders. Not really.

The question? Do you know how many genders there are in Latin? How about Sanskrit? Tutonic? (spelling errors abound, I know, but I want to get back to the conversation.)

I love my parents. I am so glad I never was ashamed of them as a teenager. Not really, that is.

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