On Sat, 12 Mar 2016 22:37:20 -0000, rbowman wrote:

On 03/12/2016 12:58 PM, Mr Macaw wrote:

But we don't insist on putting "a" or "the" in front of every single
noun, and remembering which sex it is.

Probably why the native British birth rate is so low; you can't remember
which sex is which.

Our country is full. We don't need to create more.

I would love to know how they ever did hit on some of the sexes though.
With German it's safe to sort of say d' rather than sorting out der,
die, and das.

When speaking French or German, I don't care about the sexes. The worst that can happen is they laugh at you for getting it wrong. I once (although this is mispronunciation not gender) asked for a loaf of champagne in France instead of a loaf of bread. The words are the same but with an H in one of them. The shopkeeper laughed hysterically then told me how to pronounce the C correctly while doing funny hand gestures.

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