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Am 30.12.2011 03:13 schrieb "Sarah Stierch" <<a href="mailto:sarah.stierch@gmail.com">sarah.stierch@gmail.com</a>>:<br>
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> While a discussion was taking place on this list about gender neutrality and language, Victor (User:victorgrigas) and I were having a conversation about it via email. Victor decided to create a page about "what language is Wikipedia?" <br>
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> <a href="http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/What_Gender_Is_Wikipedia">http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/What_Gender_Is_Wikipedia</a><br>
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> Hopefully you will contribute to your own and other languages. <br>
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> Interesting mention about Russian Wikipedia, it states that they refer to Wikipedia as a female,</p>
<p>Sure. Same in German. In Slavic languages, most nouns ending in -a or -ya are female, in German, it is somewhat similar. There is absolutely nothing special about this. In Ukrainian, even the word for 'human' is female: liudyna. But I doubt that this says much about culture or society..</p>
<p>Johannes<br></p>
<p> similar to how in English we refer to ships as women. <br>
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> Aweee...even Klingon is featured }:) (How sentimental!)<br>
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> -Sarah <br>
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