On Monday 19 July 2004 09:10, Leonard Vertighel
wrote:
Am Montag, 19. Juli 2004 07:39 schrieb Anthere:
Leonard Vertighel wrote:
Could you give me an example of a sentence where
you would disclose
your gender as a female, but not as a male? I really can't think of
one.
Je suis ingénieur
Je suis ingénieure
Nonsense ;-)
if (! female) { male }
There can't possibly be an example simply due to "tertium non datur".
(I'll stop spamming the list now before I get banned)
I think that what Anthere wants to say is that ingénieur applies oftenly to
both male and female engineers while ingénieure always applies only to
female. So, if you are male, you can never speak thrutfully and disclose your
gender while, if you are female, you can choose whether you want to disclose
your gender or not.