Taxacom: demystifying gender agreement ( was Re: Removals ofoffending scientific names)

[Jared Bernard]

Thanks for clarifying, Scott -- that's a very well-said assessment of Thai
language structure. By the way, I didn't say Thai have gendered nouns; I
was merely using it as an example of a language that has another gender
rule... but I admit it was a poor example. A study of 4,334 languages found
that 38% of people on Earth speak a language with gendered nouns, so I
should have chosen one of them instead. The question I was trying to pose
was whether people with such languages as their first language don't find
the Latin gender rules confusing. (And in doing so, I myself was confusing.)
-Jared

Jakiela, P., and Ozier, O. 2018. *Gendered language (English). * Policy
Research working paper,no. WPS 8464 Washington, D.C.: World Bank Group.
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