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Old 10-10-2012, 08:56 AM   Top  -  End  -  #502
Eldan
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Default Re: Musings on Language #2

All the time. All of it.

I really have to watch out so I don't genderize* things when I talk. I've done called trees "he", the sun "she"... quite often, really.


*Shuddup, firefox, that's a word now.

Interestingly, since I do all my writing in English, it also seeps back into my German. "Right?" or "Okay?" at the end of sentences is one. "Well..." as a filler word. "Nonsense", if I don't believe something.
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