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Old 07-25-2001, 01:55 PM   #11
Gaelic
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Join Date: April 28, 2001
Location: Virginia Beach, Virginia, USA
Posts: 490
Interesting topic.

English also omits many forms of specifying a gender to words and objects. For example, spanish calls male dogs "perros" and female dogs "perras." In english, the word "bitch" has taken another connotation (this, I understand, has trickled over to spanish as well).



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