[Wikipedia-l] One last word about user genders (was:sco/fiu-vro in danger..)

[V. Ivanov]

2005/5/28, Delphine Ménard <notafishz at gmail.com>:
> > relevant to use of Wikipedia.  I've managed perfectly well for about a
> > decade usually roleplaying female online, and nobody ever knows if I don't
> > want them to know.  Even those who do know tend to forget, such is the
> > power of illusion.
> 
> An illusion much harder to maintain in a language like French for
> exemple, where many times I will have to use a female form of a past
> participle or an adjective and give myself away ;-). It is quite an

One may write the whole life in Ossetic never giving oneself away. :)
Even the "he/she" pronoun is the same "uy" in the Ossetic, coming from
a demonstrative pronoun ("that"). Reading Ossetian newspapers I often
had problems understanding a person's sex until the author puts it
explicitly.

I belive not many other Hindo-European languages are similar to the
Ossetian in this respect, but most of the Turk languages are such;
with much less (if any) grammar markers of sex.

Slavik /Amikeco
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