"gender" only applies in linguistics contexts and has ZERO meaning in any biological sense. "gender" as a word exists because words do not have a sex. They don't. So what do you call the characteristic of a masculine word? Not "the word's sex".
"gender" only applies in linguistics contexts and has ZERO meaning in any biological sense.
"gender" as a word exists because words do not have a sex. They don't.
So what do you call the characteristic of a masculine word? Not "the word's sex".
The Czech language agrees with you here, it has three genders (Male, Female and Neuter).
You can't guess these genders, for example a Beer is male (duh!) but a cigarette (which is phallic in shape) is female. There is no inherent sex in these words just an arbitrarily assigned gender. If you don't know the assigned gender of a word you are (like me) fucked. Just like on Poal I make no sense IRL.
As far as people go there are two genders, two scoops and 3 terms.
The Czech language agrees with you here, it has three genders (Male, Female and Neuter).
You can't guess these genders, for example a Beer is male (duh!) but a cigarette (which is phallic in shape) is female. There is no inherent sex in these words just an arbitrarily assigned gender. If you don't know the assigned gender of a word you are (like me) fucked. Just like on Poal I make no sense IRL.
As far as people go there are two genders, two scoops and 3 terms.
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