gender voice variants

John Cowan cowan at mercury.ccil.org
Tue Aug 13 01:05:16 CEST 2013


Alain LaBont� scripsit:

> Tagging is always a good thing. However gender has nothing to do
> with language. Not a good idea. to mix different properties within
> the same category.

Sure it does.  In the story "The Entertaining Episode of the Article
in Question" by Dorothy L. Sayers, the villain is exposed as a female
impersonator because in a heated moment he says "Me prends-tu pour un
imbécile?"  See <http://ccil.org/~cowan/temp/article-in-question.pdf>
for the story.

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