Well, that’s interesting, although it still doesn’t explain—or rather, justify—the use of the words masculine and feminine for a distinction that has nothing to do with sex. You’d just end up with people getting confused by the words and thinking words like feminine-was have genders or something (whatever it even means for a string of phonemes to have a gender).
Well, that’s interesting, although it still doesn’t explain—or rather, justify—the use of the words masculine and feminine for a distinction that has nothing to do with sex. You’d just end up with people getting confused by the words and thinking words like feminine-was have genders or something (whatever it even means for a string of phonemes to have a gender).