Ah we finally learn Mialee's Sex!

[Ilium]

Oh, is it? Okay.

- Sorceress.
- Witch.
- Warlock - outside of D&D, they're always male.
- Fireman - I can't find a female form of this one.
- Spokesman / Spokesmodel / Spokesperson - female form seems overly specific.
- Actor / Actress - though current industry vogue is to ignore the latter, it exists strongly outside of the industry.
- Chanteuse - borrowed, but so is the rest of English.
- Mannish (adjective) - contrast with "manly".

Cheers, -- N

I have to dispute witch. I'm sure a lot of people apply it only to women, but strictly speaking it can be a man or woman. Many of the people persecuted (and executed for that matter) in the witch trials were men.

 

[Nifft]

I have to dispute witch.

Okay. Though as of 1900, it was already applied chiefly to women.

I'll replace it with Dominator / Dominatrix.

Cheers, -- N

 

[Bacris]

Don't forget: Postman, steward / stewardess, waiter / waitress (although restaurants are moving to Server to move away from gender-based nouns), host / hostess, policeman / policewoman (migrating to police officer for gender-neutrality).

Let's not forget metrosexual, which is both a noun and an adjective, and is masculine.

 

[Umbran]

Oh, is it? Okay.

Note that your list is entirely concerned with people, and that means the reference is not so much grammatical gender as it is about the sex of the person.

To show that English has significant grammatical gender, you'd be better off showing a list of non-person nouns that still have gender.

 

[Bacris]

To show that English has significant grammatical gender, you'd be better off showing a list of non-person nouns that still have gender.

I'd say given that English doesn't use the "a"/"o" style similar to Spanish, that'd be hard to do.

For example, historically, as mentioned, ships / boats are considered feminine. But that's not something that can be readily interpreted just from the spelling of the word, as it can be from the spelling style of Spanish.

So, while English words may have masculine / feminine considerations, it is not hard-coded into the spelling, due to how much of a melting pot of languages the English language really is.

 

[AnonymousOne]

I protest the progressive PC proponents practically possessing and pushing the English language into some pathetically pissy postmodern pile of crap.

... oh look, alliteration.

 

[Nifft]

To show that English has significant grammatical gender, you'd be better off showing a list of non-person nouns that still have gender.

Ships, for one, and already mentioned above.

(Do we really need a list?)

Cheers, -- N

 

[Prince of Happiness]

Mialee's still Ugialee.

 

[Ilium]

Okay. Though as of 1900, it was already applied chiefly to women.

I'll replace it with Dominator / Dominatrix.

Cheers, -- N

Sorry. Being pedantic makes me happy.

 

[Firebeetle]

Mialee is clearly a transgendered individual. I for one applaud WotC for his/her inclusion among the iconics along with Regdar and Gimble, who are clearly the homosexual couple represented.

It's great to see such diversity being shown, although I wouldn't mind a hot chick with red hair and little in the way of armor.