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November 19, 2003
Linguistic oddities...
Many languages have masculine and feminine concepts of nouns. I.E. in Latin, a ship is always feminine, and a wall is masculine...
So, what is the one concept that one would think should always be masculine? If you said "manhood", you'd be wrong. In Latin, for some reason, the concept is feminine...
Posted by Andrew at November 19, 2003 10:33 AM
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