Hi Simon, > On Nov 14, 2017, at 5:47 PM, Simon Albrecht <simon.albre...@mail.de> wrote: > >> Again, here English is very unusual because words do not have a gender >> (the objects they refer to may, but that's different ... :-) > > How would that be true?
See, e.g., <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grammatical_gender>: Although Old English had grammatical genders (masculine, feminine, and neuter; as in Modern German), modern English is not considered to have them and aside from a handful of nouns such as "god" and "goddess", "duke" and "duchess", "tiger" and "tigress", and "waiter" and "waitress", gender is found almost exclusively in pronouns and titles. > It may seem so, because the articles for all three genders are the same, but > words are referred to by ‘he’, ‘she’, or ‘it’. In English the sun is male, > the moon female I've spoken English my entire life, and I have literally never heard an exchange like: Q: Is the sun up yet? A: Yes — he rose an hour ago. =) Cheers, Kieren. ________________________________ Kieren MacMillan, composer ‣ website: www.kierenmacmillan.info ‣ email: i...@kierenmacmillan.info _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
