Subtle gender discrimination in Romance languages
Tuesday, March 13th, 2007Spanish is sexist!
I don’t know if you’ve noticed, but if you are talking about 10 women, you use ellas, the feminine pronoun, but if you’re talking about 9 women and one man, you’d use the masculine pronoun ellos. I think this is best illustrated. OK, I’m back 20 minutes later with my work of art.
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