Re: [OT] Grammatic gender

[Henning Hraban Ramm]

Am 2017-11-18 um 18:33 schrieb David Wright <address@hidden>:

> On Fri 17 Nov 2017 at 17:43:09 (+0000), Wol's lists wrote:
> In English? So when I write "I'm at deathes door", which of deathes
> three genders am I using?

You always use deathes LAST gender. And I’m sure they have more than three.

> It's a pity you weren't around at the time "it's" and "its" were
> invented, to rebuke people who used the former. Or perhaps we could
> just admit that allowing "its" into English was one huge mistake,
> and go back to using "his". Now nobody will have to remember which
> spelling is which. Of course, any child can justify their writing
> "it's". There's an "it", it possesses something, so stick an  's
> on the end. Perhaps Shakespeare had a better reason for writing "it's".

How about "ithes"?

>> (Dialect is not Standard English, if you want to talk dialect that's
>> fine, just accept that it is not standard.)
> 
> I see. So Standard English is what you accept, and no more?
> Where do we find this Standard English? Perhaps we need an
> English Language Academy to guard this young language lest it
> be corrupted by its young speakers. We can't trust them.

Standard English is the dialect of Standardshire.

> Not knowing the people or the circumstances, I can't judge. But a
> word of warning: don't ever travel. You might find yourself being
> misunderstood in more serious circumstances, if you don't allow
> for the same words to mean different things, or even the opposite.

No, no: Word *always* mean what I intend them to mean.

And both of my grammars are dead.

EOT

Greetlings, Hraban