Re: [Shaku] Sex and Gender in Japanese

From: JASON CASTNER (jchanwagenki@yahoo.com)
Date: Tue May 10 2005 - 14:18:22 PDT


SO IN ENGLISH THAT MEANS DONT HAVE A JAPANESE GIRL
TEACH YOU JAPANESE... :) People will think you are
okama, (gay) when you speak japanese to them. Listen
well to straight Japanese men and learn from them.

jason

--- Thomas Hare <thare@Princeton.EDU> wrote:
> Japanese nouns do not have gender like nouns in
> German, Latin, etc.,
> but there are lots of gender-specific ways of saying
> things. That is,
> men and women are inclined to use different
> pronouns, sometimes
> different verb forms and even in certain cases
> adjectival forms.
> Japanese also registers both formality and
> politeness in virtually any
> utterance. Women's speech tends to be more polite,
> although not
> necessarily more formal.
>
> Hope this helps,
> Tom Hare
>
> On May 10, 2005, at 3:22 PM, John Baker 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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> Tom Hare
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> Department of Comparative Literature
> Princeton, NJ 08544
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