gender voice variants

Milos Rancic millosh at gmail.com
Wed Dec 19 22:31:33 CET 2012


That's not a rocket science. The needed actions are:
* Recognize gender category as subtag (let's say "-gender-").
* Recognize masculine and feminine genders (-gender-m-, -gender-f-).
* Stay open if someone comes with sensible suggestion for particular
language. (For example, Luganda could have "lg-gender-7".)


On Wed, Dec 19, 2012 at 10:13 PM, Doug Ewell <doug at ewellic.org> wrote:
> And this, IIRC, is why we decided not to try to solve this seemingly simple
> problem the last time it was brought up.
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> Doug Ewell | Thornton, Colorado, USA
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> -----Original Message----- From: Milos Rancic
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> ...
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> However, gender [1] is a quite complex category, if we are talking
> about all languages. That means that it's possible to have different
> gender inflection based on categories other than [approximation of]
> natural sex. For example, different inflection or syntax depending on
> social class.
>


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