There is virtually no gender system in English, Reikha. There are the distinguishing singular personal pronouns ( he, she, it ) and ships are (or were) often referred to as ' she '-- and I think that is about all of our 'system'. Oh yes, some

Regarding the many spanish verb conjugations, I must say I truly believe that it's complexity is ultimately what keeps spanish speakers from having such vast vocabulary as english speakers do. A single verb (aside from irregulars, which aren't

I sometimes feel hard to figure out the sex of a first name. Is there any general way to tell a first name is for males or females? No, there isn't. The reason is that English is a crazy mix of many languages Anglo-Saxon, Latin, French, German

Rommie, what offense, what are you talking about? I said I ain't an Esperanto fan I agree that an artifical language must be designed for comfortable usage. Maybe, it would be better to avoid genders in artifical languages for simplicity. But

Latin used "be" (sum, esse, fui, futurus) as an auxiliary, but only for the combination of the passive voice in the perfect tenses; the perfect active and the present and imperfect passive used suffixes and stem change: OK, but when you

Can anyone point out the gender of the word 'soldier' ? Was at any point in the history of the word any masculine gender explicitly associated with its meaning ? The etymology is at , even with a paragraph of "word history".