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Date: Fri, 13 Nov 92 11:19:21 MST
Newsgroups: sci.lang.japan
Subject: Re: Reading Kanji
Organization: Brigham Young University, Provo UT USA
From: luke@newt.ee.byu.edu (David Luke)

Well, I'm in the process of making the transition from one who is sometimes
slightly annoyed at technical questions about Japanese word processing to
one who is asking the questions.

I will be getting a new PC in the next couple of weeks, and would definately
like to be able to do Japanese with it.  I am considering WordPerfect (5.1J).
Does anyone out there have experience with WP that they would like to 
share with me.  In particular, I understand that WP requires DOS V to run
on a US-standard x86 architecture.  New machines are all shipping with
DOS 5.0.  Is this the same as DOS V, or do I need to get DOS V special.
Also, what kind of printer support does WP provide.  Can it talk to, say,
HP LaserJet compatible printers, or does it do postscript output, or what.

Also, I plan to install UNIX as well as DOS on the machine.  Any comments
about the relative worth of WP vs. kterm/wnn-type processors would also
be appreciated.

Please e-mail any information.  I can summarize if there is general interest.
-- 
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|  David Luke                      "There's nothing worse than a brilliant     |
|  luke@wombat.ee.byu.edu           image of a fuzzy concept."                 |
|                                                               -- Ansel Adams |
Newsgroups: sci.lang.japan
From: david_goldsmith@taligent.com (David Goldsmith)
Subject: Mac 7.1 and Japanese script
Followup-To: sci.lang.japan
Organization: Taligent, Inc.
Date: Fri, 6 Nov 1992 20:44:39 GMT

Several people here (and elsewhere) have inquired into the availability of
the Japanese script system drop-in module for the Macintosh U.S. 7.1
system. Apple has still made no announcement concerning availability to the
general public.

However, the October 1992 Developer CD-ROM contains U.S. 7.1, WorldScript
I, and WorldScript II, as well as many, many script systems that work with
both, including the gold master version of the Japanese system (as well as
Korean, Chinese, Hebrew, Cyrillic, Thai, etc, etc). The Japanese system
includes one Kanji font, Osaka, in both bitmap and TrueType forms.

This software is distributed under a special license, which essentially
states that it is only for the purpose of testing your software and
constitutes confidential information of Apple Computer, Inc. If you are
interested and you get the developer CD-ROM you should read the text of the
license agreement yourself. The CD-ROM is included with suscriptions to
"develop" magazine, available from the Apple Programmer's and Developer's
Association (APDA), but develop only comes out four times a year, and you
might have to wait for a future issue with a post-October CD-ROM (the
CD-ROM is updated every month, and you only get all issues if you are an
Apple partner [or whatever they call it these days]).

Please note that I am neither an Apple employee nor a lawyer, so don't ask
me what uses of this software are appropriate. I'm just pointing out its
availability.

David Goldsmith
Taligent, Inc.
10725 N. DeAnza Blvd. MS: PD/3
Cupertino, CA  95014-2000
david_goldsmith@taligent.com
Newsgroups: sci.lang.japan
From: beggy@optik.eng.yale.edu
Subject: Gomitalk program
Organization: Yale University, Dept. of EE
Date: 5 Nov 92 16:20:00 EST

I am looking for an FTP site for Gomitalk, a program which allows Kanjitalk to
run on Mac System 7.  Any suggestions?  Thanks.

Chris Beggy
Newsgroups: sci.lang.japan
From: jwb@capek.rdt.monash.edu.au (Jim Breen)
Subject: Re: Kanji of the day ?61
Organization: Monash University, Melb., Australia.
Date: Mon, 9 Nov 1992 06:37:39 GMT

stueber@VAX.MPIZ-KOELN.MPG.DBP.DE writes:

>KANJI OF THE DAY # 61

>JIS      = 2344 (serial number)

hex = 3978

>NELSON   =

Tsk, tsk. NELSON   = 3799

>Compounds:

>YOUtsuu    -   pain in the hip
>KOSHIyu    -   sitting bath
>KOSHIore   -   bad poem, my humble poem (polite)
>KOSHIobi   -   waist towel
>KOSHInuke  -   coward
 ^^^^^^^^^	(the mind boggles)
>KOSHImoto  -   chamber maid, female servant

Thank you

Edict has: 

saiYOU		slender hips
honGOSHI	strenuous effort
monoGOSHI	manner, demeanour, bearing
yanagiGOSHI	slim waist
^^^^^^^^^^^   (lovely imagery)

yowaGOSHI	weak attitude
KOSHImaki	loincloth, waistcloth
KOSHInuno	loincloth
-- 
Jim Breen                           JIS:$B%8%`!!%V%j!<%s(J
Department of Robotics & Digital Technology. Monash University. 
PO Box 197 Caulfield East VIC 3145 Australia (ph) +61 3 573 2552 
(fax) +61 3 573 2345  AARNet/Internet:jwb@capek.rdt.monash.edu.au
From: sielmann@DKRZ-HAMBURG.DBP.DE ("F.Sielmann")
Newsgroups: sci.lang.japan
Subject: Re: Nihongo List
Date: 13 Nov 92 12:02:12 GMT
Reply-To: NIHONGO@mitvma.mit.edu
Organization: The Internet
X-Unparsable-Date: Fri, 13 Nov 1992 07: 01:41 TZONE

>
> RFC-822-Headers:
> Received: from MITVMA.MIT.EDU by DEARN (Mailer R2.08) with BSMTP id 5253; Fri,
>  13 Nov 92 11:32:25 MET
> Received: by MITVMA (Mailer R2.08 R208004) id 7292;
>           Fri, 13 Nov 92 05:23:45 EST
>
> I would like to subscribe to the "Nihongo" list.  Could you send me some
> info?  Thanks.
>
>
  Please send your request to LISTSERV@MITVMA.MIT.EDU with
  Subject:Request and message
  SUBSCRIBE NIHONGO "Yourname"

 Good luck,
 Frank
Newsgroups: sci.lang.japan
From: YFROST@BROOK.BITNET
Subject: Re: JEI
X-Unparsable-Date: Fri, 13 Nov 1992 17: 16:53 TZONE
Reply-To: NIHONGO@mitvma.mit.edu
Organization: The Internet
Date: Fri, 13 Nov 1992 22:17:34 GMT

For those who are interested in the JET Program, contact:

Embassy of Japan
Office of the JET Program
2520 Massachusetts Avenue, NW
Washington, DC 20008

The deadline for application is December 15, 1992.

Y. Frost
From: medcm529@emory.edu (Andreas M. Kogelnik)
Newsgroups: sci.lang.japan
Subject: Re: intensive summer course in Japan
Date: 9 Nov 92 19:30:30 GMT
Organization: Emory University, Atlanta, GA
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL3

I am a graduate of the Hokkaido program. I found it to be 
excellent.  If you have any further questions regarding
it I would be more than happy to answer them.

They also have a year-round program.

Andy K
kogelnik@u1.cc.emory.edu

Newsgroups: sci.lang.japan
From: lisota@CAE.WISC.EDU
Subject: Re: intensive summer course in Japan
Reply-To: NIHONGO@mitvma.mit.edu
Organization: The Internet
Date: Mon, 9 Nov 1992 00:37:22 GMT

>
> >>>>> On Fri, 6 Nov 1992 09:21:00 CST, John Kapson <jkapson@NIS.NAITC.COM>
 said:
>
> >> Hokkaido Summer Program (in Hakodate)
>
> hi netters,
>
> as a japanese native born and brought up in Hokkaido area, Kushiro
> city in precise, I wonder how Japanese learners found Hokkaido
> dialect.
>
> I imagine some guys who actually visited Hokkaido are noticed the
> differences between "text book Japanese" and the dialect. As for
> the dialects in Japan, I'd like to know how much is taught/described
> in the standard(if any) Japanese text books....
>
> Naoki.
>
For me, Hokkaido was my first trip to Japan, and my first opportunity to
use Japanese outside of class, so my ablility to compare the dialect is a
bit limited.  I will say that no dialect was ever taught in our classes here
at the University.  As far as I could tell, city dwellers in Hokkaido are
relatively dialect free unless they have lived in Aomori.  I had the chance
to meet a few people from Aomori and I can almost say that I didn't understand
a word!

--
**********

Kevin Lisota
lisota@cae.wisc.edu
1120 Milton Street
Madison, WI  53715
(608)256-5563
Newsgroups: sci.lang.japan
From: jkapson@ad-29.Naitc.Com (John Kapson)
Subject: Re: intensive summer course in Japan
Organization: AC Nielsen Co., Bannockburn IL
Date: Mon, 9 Nov 92 20:36:57 GMT

In article <9211091209.AA08596@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU> NIHONGO@mitvma.mit.edu writes:
>>
>> >>>>> On Fri, 6 Nov 1992 09:21:00 CST, John Kapson <jkapson@NIS.NAITC.COM>
> said:
>>
>> >> Hokkaido Summer Program (in Hakodate)
>>
>For me, Hokkaido was my first trip to Japan, and my first opportunity to
>use Japanese outside of class, so my ablility to compare the dialect is a
>bit limited.  I will say that no dialect was ever taught in our classes here
>at the University.  As far as I could tell, city dwellers in Hokkaido are
>relatively dialect free unless they have lived in Aomori.  I had the chance
>to meet a few people from Aomori and I can almost say that I didn't understand
>a word!


Note to all:  this is John Kapson.  I didn't write this and have never
taken part in any homestay program in Hokkaido.  My only contribution
to this thread had been a request to Kevin for more information that i
thought was going by private email, but I guess my newsreader screwed up.
For those of you who have been asking for more information from me,
you're asking the wrong guy.  Sorry.

Regards,
John Kapson   NRA ILA
From: pancho@oakhill.sps.mot.com (James B. Lee)
Newsgroups: sci.lang.japan
Subject: EAGLE JAPAN PROGRAM..
Date: 5 Nov 92 20:15:39 GMT
Article-I.D.: oakhill.1992Nov5.201539.28621
Reply-To: pancho@oakhill.sps.mot.com
Organization: Motorola Semiconductor Products Sector


Is there anyone out there who participated EAGLE JAPAN PROGRAM last summer in Koriyama?
Please acknowledge via email...

Thanks.

---
James B. Lee
Motorola MMG
sMiLe.. LiFe Is ToO sHorT....     
Newsgroups: sci.lang.japan
From: 374ossdow@YOKOTA-EMH.AF.MIL (374 OSS/DOW)
Subject: IBM Japanese Programs
X-Unparsable-Date: Thu, 5 Nov 1992 09: 00:00 LCL
Reply-To: NIHONGO@mitvma.mit.edu
Organization: The Internet
Date: Thu, 5 Nov 1992 01:08:03 GMT

                   I N T E R O F F I C E   M E M O R A N D U M

                                        Date:      5-Nov-1992 10:06am JST
                                        From:      Maj Waters
                                                   374OSSDOW
                                        Dept:
                                        Tel No:    225-8417

TO:  Remote Addressee                     ( _NIHONGO@MITVMA.MIT.EDU )


Subject: IBM Japanese Programs

>Subject: Lack of Software for IBM..
>   Would anyone know of any public domain/shareware packages for
>Japanese language instruction, specifically a Kanji "drill" type of
>program?  Any information would be greatly appreciated!! :)

   I would direct you to the SIMTEL system (or one of its mirrors) where you
will find a Kanji flashcard program.  I'm not sure I remember where it was
but it is under the MSDOS section and the "language tools" subsection (sorry,
don't remember the exact name of it).  File is called something like KANJI1.ZIP
and has a display driver built in with something like the first 250 Kanji.
Unfortunately, there are not more Kanji included.  I have run the program
and it steps through the normal JME sequence and includes both readings for
each character, the English meaning and usually three example compounds.
It's VERY similar to the method the Tuttle book "A Guide to Reading & Writing
Japanese" uses.  Let me know if you need more information on how to find
this program and I will be happy to help you.

       Ken

---------------------
Ken Waters    USAF, Maj, Staff Weather Officer, Yokota AB, Japan (Fussa-shi)
Internet:  DET15WX@osan-emh.af.mil     or  374OSSDOW@yokota-emh.af.mil
Compuserve: 73307,131 (checked once a yr!)       N4PBY/HL9PIT/J71???
---------------------

Newsgroups: sci.lang.japan
From: lisota@CAE.WISC.EDU
Subject: Re: intensive summer course in Japan
Reply-To: NIHONGO@mitvma.mit.edu
Organization: The Internet
Date: Fri, 6 Nov 1992 03:39:35 GMT

>
> Let me add this infomation:
>
> Hokkaido Summer Program (in Hakodate)
>
> Contact:
> The Hokkaido Foundation
> 17133 Nanette Street
> Granada Hills, CA 91344
> Ph. 818-368-8935
>
I was in this program this past summer, so I can answer any questions that
people might have.  All in all, it was a very good program, especially the
homestay!

Kevin


--
**********

Kevin Lisota
lisota@cae.wisc.edu
1120 Milton Street
Madison, WI  53715
(608)256-5563
From: crevier@husc8.harvard.edu (Daniel Crevier)
Newsgroups: sci.lang.japan
Subject: Mac version of jdict
Date: 5 Nov 92 04:45:55 GMT


	I've been working on translating Jim Breen's jdict to the Mac using
KanjiTalk, and I have a version that is ready for beta testers.  It only
requires about 300k, but is a lot faster with more memory.  If you are
interested in trying it out, send me email at crevier@husc8.harvard.edu.  You
will need to obtain the dictionary files (edict and kdict) from an ftp site,
such as monu6.cc.monash.edu.au.  I have a lot of touching up to do, but this
version works, and I'd like to make sure it works on other systems and to
get other peoples' input on how they think it should work.
Newsgroups: sci.lang.japan
From: chawley@andy.bgsu.edu (Chris Hawley)
Subject: Re: Etymological dictionary
Summary: Another search
Organization: Bowling Green State University B.G., Oh.
Date: Fri, 13 Nov 1992 14:59:48 GMT

Two years ago, I was an exchange student in Japan.  My host father taught
Chinese,and he once showed me a Chinese dictionary he used that used a very 
interesting reference system.

To find out what a certain character meant, you looked at the four corners
of the character.  The 10 or so different corner patterns had numbers (0-9)
that corresponded to them.  For instance, the right angle in the upper left
corner of the character "hi" (sun) might be a 3, the right angle going the
other way in the upper right might be, say, a 5.  You then put the numbers
together (going clockwise) to get a 4-digit number.  You looked up the
four-digit number, and ta-da- there was the character you were looking for!

This reference system was much, much faster than trying to count strokes or 
identify radicals, and it worked for any character.  I never saw a kanji 
dictionary that worked the same way, and I have never met a Japanese who has
heard of such a system.

Does anybody know of the system I'm talking about?  Is there a Japanese
dictionary that uses the same system?

************************************
Chris Hawley
chawley@andy.bgsu.edu
************************************
Bowling Green State University
************************************
 
Newsgroups: sci.lang.japan
From: cstewart@npal.rn.com
Newsgroups: sci.lang.japan
Subject: Re: (none) (SET NIHONGO ACK IS A CALL OF CTHULHU SPELL...:)
Date: 5 Nov 92 13:21:14 EDT
Organization: PalNet -- Indianapolis, Indiana

 In article <9211041923.AA18503@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU>, Z130@SETONMUS.BITNET (Z130000) writes:
> SET NIHONGO ACK
From: ucbked@athena (Earl H. Kinmonth)
Newsgroups: sci.lang.japan
Subject: new jwp ftp site
Date: 11 Nov 1992 20:59:16 GMT
Organization: Centre for Japanese Studies, Univ. of Sheffield
Distribution: world
Reply-To: jp1ek@sunc.shef.ac.uk
NNTP-Posting-Host: athena.berkeley.edu

as an experiment, i have placed the files for jwp (including the
48x48 font) in pub/japanese/jwp on my office machine.  for
anonymous ftp use 143.167.25.1 or kuso.shef.ac.uk.  access
outside of 0000-0700 gmt is problematical.

when i have a replacement for this machine, it will be used as a
dedicated archive server for japanese software for open systems.
suggestions and contributions are welcome.  use the mail address
in the reply-to header to contact me.

kuso: the kanji users service operation.

earl h. kinmonth
-- 
earl h. kinmonth, centre for japanese studies, university of sheffield,
sheffield, england s10 2tn  jp1ek@sunc.sheffield.ac.uk
Lines: 25
Date: Fri, 30 Oct 92 11:19:17 MST
Newsgroups: sci.lang.japan
Subject: Re: In defense of kanji in Japanese
Organization: Brigham Young University, Provo UT USA
From: luke@newt.ee.byu.edu (David Luke)

In article <1992Oct30.013330.1@camins.camosun.bc.ca> alumni106@camins.camosun.bc.ca (Max Sterling) writes:

>Stupid question time again: I just picked up the Kodansha Compact Kanji 
>guide. After looking through it for a while, I noticed that pretty much 
>every Kanji is either a radical or composed entirely of radicals. (This 
>is after a VERY limited glance through the book) I was was wondering, is 
>it possible to determine the basic meaning of a Kanji by merely 
>combining the meaning of each individual radical that make up the Kanji? 
>Thanx in advance. Mata ne.

Answer: yes, but no.  The radicals can give valuable clues to the meaning,
and help in remembering how a particular character is put together, but
in general it's not possible to fully determine the meaning from radicals
alone.  

For example, many of the characters with the "metal" radical on the left
(kanehen) are names of metals - gin, tetsu, dou, hagane, etc..  But, there
are others which are not.  So, yes, the radicals can give you clues as
to the meaning, but no, they're not enough, in general, to determine the
meaning.
-- 
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|  David Luke                      "There's nothing worse than a brilliant     |
|  luke@wombat.ee.byu.edu           image of a fuzzy concept."                 |
|                                                               -- Ansel Adams |
From: Z130@SETONMUS.BITNET (Z130000)
Newsgroups: sci.lang.japan
Subject: Sophia University Program...
Date: 4 Nov 92 23:09:11 GMT
Reply-To: NIHONGO@mitvma.mit.edu
Organization: The Internet


 I hope to take part in a 6 week summer exchange program at Sophia
University in Tokyo the summer after next.  I go to Seton Hall, and
luckily for me my school has a special program with Sophia where a
students are sent from each country to each other's school.  The great
part of it is that the schools PAY FOR THE CREDITS & ROOM AND BOARD.
So whats the catch?  You have to buy your own ticket and pay for food
and other living expenses, but when you consider that you're taking
6 credits in six weeks, that would cost me easily $2,000 for the two
classes, whereas I've heard that one can take part in the program for
about $1,500-$1,700.  Not too bad, since you're getting overseas exp.
and the credits don't affect your GPA.  Japan here I come!


Al..
Newsgroups: sci.lang.japan
From: SASAKI@RHODES.BITNET
Subject: intensive summer course in Japan
X-Unparsable-Date: Thu, 5 Nov 1992 16: 42:42 TZONE
Reply-To: NIHONGO@mitvma.mit.edu
Organization: The Internet
Date: Thu, 5 Nov 1992 21:43:44 GMT

Let me add this infomation:

Hokkaido Summer Program (in Hakodate)

Contact:
The Hokkaido Foundation
17133 Nanette Street
Granada Hills, CA 91344
Ph. 818-368-8935
From: wsaito@ucrac1.ucr.edu (William Saito)
Newsgroups: sci.lang.japan
Subject: Sample Japanese PostScript output
Date: 10 Nov 92 02:23:41 GMT
Reply-To: wsaito@ucrac1.ucr.edu


	I was wondering if someone could mail me some sample Japanese  
PostScript.  I want to test the compatibility of a certain Japanese  
PostScript printer and see how compatible it is with an Apple NTXJ.

	Please mail sample to: wsaito@ucrac1.ucr.edu.

	Thanx!
From: andreas@whale.ryukoku.ac.jp (Andreas Knobel)
Newsgroups: sci.lang.japan
Subject: Etymological dictionary
Date: 13 Nov 92 06:26:39 GMT
Organization: Ryukoku Univ., Seta, Japan


Can anybody recommend an etymological dictionary (all Japanese)
that tells you how a certain word developed? There are a lot of words
I just cannot get into my head; knowing their derivation would
probably help.

Thanks,

Andreas

Ryukoku University
Seta
From: kerkoveericj@bvc.edu
Newsgroups: sci.lang.japan
Subject: Questions from the new guy.
Date: 4 Nov 92 21:44:33 CDT
Organization: Buena Vista College, Storm Lake, IA

	I have just found this unique section today, and it really has me 
excited. I have only been studying the language since the beginning of this 
semester, and I plan on taking another course next semester.  Becouse my 
small school only has those two classes, I have been working on plans to go 
to Nihon next year. I have only two questions to ask, and that is, just 
what kinds of things do you guys talk about (besides wordprossesing) and 
weather or not you think I would be jumping the gun by planning to go 
abroad with such a small amount of the language known.  I know all of the 
katakana and Hiragana, but I only know one Kangi (watashi).  
	I guess I have one more question, just how hard is it for an 
American to learn Nihongo, in terms of time and practice. I'm finding it to 
be very difficult, no matter how badly I want to learn it.



Newsgroups: sci.lang.japan
From: pjp@KRK.FI (Pekka Pylkkanen)
Subject: Nihongo
Reply-To: NIHONGO@mitvma.mit.edu
Organization: The Internet
Date: Sun, 1 Nov 1992 06:48:54 GMT

Hello,

I learned from Japan about your mailing list related to the
Japanese language. If possible I would like to join. Thank you.

Pekka Pylkkanen
pjp@krk.fi
From: t_yamasi@hoffman.cc.sophia.ac.jp (Yamashiki Tsuyoshi)
Newsgroups: sci.lang.japan
Subject: Re: Sophia University Program...
Date: 6 Nov 92 05:11:22 GMT
Organization: Computer Center, Sophia Univ., Tokyo, Japan

Welcome to Sophia University!
And you sure can have access to the net, as you see.
-- 
Tsuyoshi Yamashiki, lost boy in cyber space.
From: 1N2QLRES@UKANVM.BITNET (Yukihiro Yumitani)
Newsgroups: sci.lang.japan
Subject: Nihongo List
Date: 13 Nov 92 10:20:17 GMT
Reply-To: NIHONGO@mitvma.mit.edu
Organization: The Internet

I would like to subscribe to the "Nihongo" list.  Could you send me some
info?  Thanks.
Newsgroups: sci.lang.japan
From: lzb1246@hiuxm.kuec.kyoto-u.ac.jp (TAMANO Ken'iti)
Subject: Re: How to speak, read and write as well as native-born Japanese?
Keywords: native-born  curriculum  books  fluency
Organization: Educational Center for Information Processing, Kyoto University
Date: Fri, 6 Nov 1992 07:08:44 GMT


  In Nippon, we learn how to read out the topics of logical sentenses (reports, 
articles) or feelings of characters in literature at the cource of `Kokugo' or 
National language.  Especially, we learn how to pronouce and write the kanji at 
an elementary school.  Our knowledge about Nipponese Language itself is small 
amount.  Textbooks used in Nippon are not useful for non-native speaker, methinks.
  And more, in Nippon, there is a difference between speaked language and 
written language.  This differnce is not small.  And the textbooks used in school 
are for written language.
  You'd better to learn by use, if you have a chance.

  If you have some questions about Nipponese, give me e-mail.  I'll try to answer.
  I wish you become to speak as well as your grand-parents.

  Douzo ganbatte kudasai ne!

-----
  from ancient capital,
  TAMANO Ken'iti   at Section of Linguistic, Faculty of Arts, Kyoto University
  lzb1246@hiuxm.kuec.kyoto-u.ac.jp
From: zim@kestrel.edu (David Zimmerman)
Newsgroups: sci.lang.japan
Subject: Oshiaberi no otomo dachi
Summary: Mutually beneficial language exchange
Keywords: native-born fluency business
Date: 6 Nov 92 20:30:49 GMT
Followup-To: zim@kestrel.edu
Organization: Kestrel Institute, Palo Alto, CA

** My (her) first posting, so please excuse any gaffs **

   Professional female wishes to practice her Nihongo in exchange for helping
a Japenese-born businessman with his Eigo.  Primary (subject) interest is 
business-economics.  Dozo, denwa o kakete kudasai [415-738-1371 : Michele],
arvi wa, watakushi no otto computa wa ``zim@kestrel.edu''
Hanashimasho, ne?
Newsgroups: sci.lang
From: mcovingt@aisun3.ai.uga.edu (Michael Covington)
Subject: Gender terms; was: Re: Historical roots of "womyn" spelling?
Organization: AI Programs, University of Georgia, Athens
Date: Fri, 13 Nov 1992 05:58:55 GMT

In article <1992Nov13.011211.18127@gov.on.ca> renzland@gov.on.ca (Peter Renzland) writes:
>
>(Does English lead other languages in its abundance of gender-dominant
>terms?)

Hard to say.  English is almost unique among European languages in its
complete lack of grammatical gender.  That makes it easy to accuse English
of sexism.

-- 
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:-  Artificial Intelligence Programs       phone 706 542-0358
:-  The University of Georgia                fax 706 542-0349
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Newsgroups: sci.lang,soc.culture.china,soc.culture.taiwan,soc.culture.hongkong