Girl Things, Boy Things, and Translation

A comment to Peter Kirk’s discussion of Matthew 12:9-14 drew my attention to a passage from Appendix D of Mark Twain’s A Tramp Abroad. In it, Twain writes about his experience with German, and, among things, gender. Here’s part of what Twain writes: See how [this crazy thing called gender] looks in print — I…
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September 18, 2009 0