"Warp" <war### [at] tagpovrayorg> wrote in message
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>   However, that's not a big problem compared to the translation in the
> other way around. Suppose that the text only speaks about a person as

> in the fact that the gender is not disclosed until the very end (perhaps
> a mystery story or something). That is pretty hard to translate to english
> (or any other language where the gender is distinguished, which is very
> common).
>

Yes, I once wrote a short-story in which I didn't want the sex of one of the
characters to given. Took some real acrobatics and even then there are bits
that still look a little forced.

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