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English is not normal, says John McWhorter
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[QUOTE="Drakkith, post: 6826836, member: 272035"] True. But we still call a ship [I]a[/I] ship or [I]the[/I] ship, and there's no modifiers placed on [I]ship[/I] to make it gendered. The only truly gendered words (in a grammatical sense) are typically related to things that actually have to do with gender, like father vs mother, male vs female, boy vs girl, etc. But we do have gendered words in the sense that words like fire[I]man[/I] or business[I]man[/I] or police[I]man [/I](and their -[I]woman [/I]counterparts for some)[I] [/I]exists and are still a fairly common way of talking about people of those professions. Most examples of gendered nouns or pronouns also have a gender neutral form. For the above they are firefighter, business person, and police officer. For more: [URL]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gender_in_English[/URL] [/QUOTE]
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