A co-worker of mine asked me today. In answer to my puzzled look he made an interesting point...
The new Socialist Democratic Party has become the self-proclaimed advocates for a GENDER-NUTRAL America. This 100% conflicts with bringing in over nearly 1 Million Spanish-speaking illegals per year. Anyone who knows the Spanish language knows much of it is based on gender -
male vs female -- Amig
O vs Amig
A.
'Sorry', HE SAID, 'but this will NOT work in the Socialist Democrats' new
GENDER-NEUTRAL AMERIKA'.
....hmmmmm?!
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Ridiculous. First of all, such a demand would be unconstitutional and also contradicts our values.
Secondly, all immigrants come to this country with their language. My mother's parents would never have survived, as their English was poor, while they were fluent in Polish and Russian. I live in a multi-ethnic neighborhood where everything from English to Spanish to Korean to Urdu to Arabic to Chinese to Amharic are spoken.
Thirdly, all romance languages have the gender distinctions on which you base your wacked-out theory. Do you want to go tell the folks in Louisiana that they can't speak French? Our friends from Quebec?
Fourth, English has its own awkward gender problems. Its problems with gender-based pronouns (he, she, his, her) have been partially resolved by substituting "they," "them," "their." At least we English speakers don't have to cope with figuring out what gender the word "table" is, like speakers of romance languages have to do, but I guess they catch on early.
I hope that you never had to sweat through a year of Latin.