Warp wrote:
>   In Finnish it's much easier because there are no gender-specific pronouns,
> period.

My understanding (from a once-thru read of "teach yourself Swahili") is 
that language doesn't have gender-specific pronouns. But it does have 
different pronouns for things that are alive, things that are dead, and 
things that aren't alive but aren't dead either.

Alive would be people, animals, etc.
Dead would be rocks.
Neither apparently includes rivers, knives, and trees.

Pretty unusual to this speaker of english. :-)

-- 
Darren New / San Diego, CA, USA (PST)

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