2005/5/28, Delphine Ménard notafishz@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