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Re: Linguistics From: Laureano Folgar (lfolgar@vianwe.com) Fri Jun 27 07:28:54 2008 Messages sorted by: [ date ][ thread ][ subject ][ author ] Next message: art fougner, md: "Re: FRI House passes Medicare bill but obstacles remain" Previous message: Douglas Krell: "Re: FRI House passes Medicare bill but obstacles remain" In reply to: Meenan, Anna L.: "Re: Linguistics" Next in thread: Efrain Ramirez: "Re: Linguistics" Reply: Efrain Ramirez: "Re: Linguistics" Gender of nouns normally have no rules, so everyone thinks theirs are the right ones. For example, German-Spanish dictionaries usually includes articles to define gender, for a Spaniard "Das Kinder" have no sense at all. We think English is a confusing language because we have minimal words with some difference between writing and spelling, quite different to English. As curiosity, in Spain, we can´t say we speak Spanish, it´s not political correct. Spanish are the idioms of Spain (Castilian, Basque, Catalan, Galician, etc), so call Spanish to Spanish is considered as if you say the others languages are not of Spain, so you always see Castilian when referred to Spanish. No comment. Best regards L. Folgar Meenan, Anna L. escribió: > And they say English is a confusing language. > > Anna Meenan, MD > > On Thu, June 26, 2008 9:46 am, Gerald P. Rodríguez wrote: > >> Ef would probably give a better reason, Ann. But best I can tell the >> anatomic words in Spanish have been assigned either masculine or feminine >> without regard to the gender to which they belong. Thus it's masculine >> "el >> utero" for uterus, but it's "la prostata" for prostate. And it's "el pie" >> (foot), but it's "la cabeza" (head). Just to throw a curve into the mix, >> it's "la mano" (hand). Then there is, as in English often more than one >> label for a body part, so "matriz" is perfectly understood by Spanish >> speakers as meaning uterus and it's "la matriz," not "el matriz." >> Perhaps, >> though I speculate, gender assignment flows from the original derivation >> of >> the word--Latin vs. Greek? >> >> Gerald P. Rodriguez, M.D., FACOG >> Santa Fe >> >>> ----- Original Message ----- >> Next message: art fougner, md: "Re: FRI House passes Medicare bill but obstacles remain" Previous message: Douglas Krell: "Re: FRI House passes Medicare bill but obstacles remain" In reply to: Meenan, Anna L.: "Re: Linguistics" Next in thread: Efrain Ramirez: "Re: Linguistics" Reply: Efrain Ramirez: "Re: Linguistics"

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