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Re:Gender and verbs across 100K stories: a tidy analysis by vacri on Friday April 28, 2017 @09:48AM (#14219313)
A Bulgarian colleague of mine said that even surnames are gendered - her surname is Nakova, her father's is Nakov. It plays merry hell with admin software from anglo nations which assume surnames aren't gendered, apparently.
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Re:Gender and verbs across 100K stories: a tidy analysis by viraptor on Friday April 28, 2017 @09:59AM (#14219394)
Same in Czech, which I believe still enforces the -ova ending. (Please correct me if that changed)
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Re:Gender and verbs across 100K stories: a tidy analysis by phillc73 on Friday April 28, 2017 @10:04AM (#14219432)
Not just Bulgarian. I know Latvian surnames have the same concept. Probably others too.
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Re:Gender and verbs across 100K stories: a tidy analysis by 3131s on Friday April 28, 2017 @11:51AM (#14220408)
Russian too, I'm pretty sure from watching years of tennis. Marat Safin, for example, and his sister Dinara Safina.
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