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Re:The capital sharp S in now part of the official German or... by gjjrfcbugxbhf on Tuesday July 04, 2017 @02:45AM (#14694006)
Le port and la port.
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Re:The capital sharp S in now part of the official German or... by seszett on Tuesday July 04, 2017 @07:07AM (#14695081)
Port is always masculine though, it only means port/harbour.

But it's not that important, gender does add some redundancy and some error-correction to a language. It's not necessary (as shown by English) but it has some use.

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Re:The capital sharp S in now part of the official German or... by emodendroket on Tuesday July 04, 2017 @07:41AM (#14695227)
I guess he's thinking of "la porte" but the pronunciation isn't the same.
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