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Definitions that aren't derived from binary

Started by ativan, April 14, 2011, 07:04:16 PM

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ativan

Are there definitions, words or phrases, that stand alone in their description of gender, such as maybe Third Gender? One's that are not derived from the binary, but stand alone in definition?

Seems like most everything else does. Up and Down, Here and There, Beginning and Ending? Etc.,

It's more like On and Off. Maybe doesn't even fit there.......

Is this the root of confusion and disagreement and overabundance of labels? This has been going through my head for a few days now, and I got nothing substantial.


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Jaimey

Language-wise, there is a "neuter" gender (particularly in Romance languages).  The word "neutral" and anything that looks like those came from that.  That's all I got though.  :)
If curiosity really killed the cat, I'd already be dead. :laugh:

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Pica Pica

I suppose definition is started by naming each end of a line, that a gender word not connected to binary is not a gender word because for most people gender is binary.
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Jaimey

If curiosity really killed the cat, I'd already be dead. :laugh:

"How far you go in life depends on you being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and the strong. Because someday in life you will have been all of these." GWC
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