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.