Re:Why isn’t there an English Academy? Blame the plague
by jhgb on Thursday August 26, 2021 @08:26PM
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> I take it WIFI is a noun. How is gender prescribed to a noun?
Easily, by the language making it an obligatory grammatical category for nouns. Grammar says there's concord in the language and some words have gender? Suddenly all nouns require gender for concord, regardless of whether it seems reasonable to you or not.
Easily, by the language making it an obligatory grammatical category for nouns. Grammar says there's concord in the language and some words have gender? Suddenly all nouns require gender for concord, regardless of whether it seems reasonable to you or not.