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Old 05-10-2001, 05:57 AM   #16
WOLFGIR
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Join Date: March 1, 2001
Location: Sweden
Age: 51
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Originally posted by Sir_Tainly:
o.k. I'm curious about how other languages treat a very old, emancipated profession Doctors? In English the title gives no indication of gender, in German I've only ever heard it used with males, do other languages have masc and fem words for doctor. If I remember rightly thius words is similar in a lot of European languages.

Hmm, good one one tainly!

We use doctor (doktor) for both, as well with professor too. Seems that some jobtitles are now considered to be genderless so to say..

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