Re: [Shaku] Sex and Gender in Japanese

From: JASON CASTNER (jchanwagenki@yahoo.com)
Date: Tue May 10 2005 - 13:11:32 PDT


I would tell ya another meaning of the word
shakuhachi. But it isn't so polite - very sexual.
Just think of what else a person looks like there
doing while playing a shaku. You can ask your
girlfriend to give ya shakuhachi! :)

jason

--- John Baker <jinpa19822003@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Hi.
>
> The "Drying Culms" thread stirred a question in me,
> or
> a series of questions.
>
> Does Japanese (the language) have grammatical
> gender?
> In German, Latin, French, etc. each noun has a
> grammatical gender (English does not use grammatical
> gender). Moon is masculine in German and feminine
> in
> French, Latin, etc. Sun is feminine in German but
> masculine in Latin, etc. And lest you think these
> grammatical gender assigments are reality based,
> woman
> & maiden are both neuter in German. Flower is
> neuter
> in Latin, masculine in Italian & feminine in French.
>
> If Japanese language uses grammatical gender, what
> is
> the gender of shakuhachi? Bamboo?
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> John Baker
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