Can French Be Made Gender Neutral? More Pc Cobras?

[ToraToraTora]

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-42073148
I's say no, the language is infused from top to bottom

[Togo]

Why would anyone want to make Dawn French gender neutral? A bit quieter would be sufficient surely.

[DTCwordfan]

Vietnamese is the way forward - no definite or indefinite article - hearing a Viet talking French with this lack of structure was brill. "Voici table et chaise." "Est-ce que vous avez fourchette>"

[Jackdaw33]

Russian is the same, no articles.

[vetuste_ennemi]

Were table et chaise belles ou beaux, I wonder, DTC?

[Jackdaw33]

Actually, thinking about it, Latin has no articles either, though Greek does.

[vetuste_ennemi]

Definitely.

[vetuste_ennemi]

The nearest Latin equivalent to 'οι πολλοι is res publica.

[vetuste_ennemi]

Cancel last answer. Plebs, I think. Back to MoD.

[vetuste_ennemi]

Revert to ΠΟΛΙΣ. But where is PP when you need him?

[Khandro]

In Swabian German (Baden-Württemberg) they remove the der and die, by (childishly) making all nouns neutral (das) by adding the diminutive, "le" at the end, e.g. der Tisch (the table), can become a "das Tischle", (the little table) even if it's big! don't ask me why.

[birdie1971]

No.

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