Re: clitoris

[Richard Kennaway <jrk@SYS.UEA.AC.UK>]

jimc writes:
>An aside: we often say that Chinese (Mandarin) has a gender-neutral 3rd
>person pronoun.  Well, sort of.  According to my wife, a native
>speaker, the spoken form is gender-neutral but the written form has an
>explicit male/female modifier included in the character, according to
>the sex of the referent!

According to Ramsay, "The Languages of China", the gender modifier is a
recent (this century) addition, a deliberate emulation of European
languages, and that previously one sign stood for he/she/it.

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