X-Received: by 10.68.200.168 with SMTP id jt8mr9213760pbc.7.1357612428028; Mon, 07 Jan 2013 18:33:48 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.50.53.168 with SMTP id c8mr2964212igp.17.1357612427949; Mon, 07 Jan 2013 18:33:47 -0800 (PST) Path: csiph.com!newsfeed.hal-mli.net!feeder3.hal-mli.net!newsfeed.hal-mli.net!feeder1.hal-mli.net!nntp.club.cc.cmu.edu!newsfeed.news.ucla.edu!usenet.stanford.edu!b8no10873266pbd.0!news-out.google.com!s9ni93491pbb.0!nntp.google.com!f6no1287209pbd.1!postnews.google.com!glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.programmer Date: Mon, 7 Jan 2013 18:33:47 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com; posting-host=69.28.149.29; posting-account=CP-lKQoAAAAGtB5diOuGlDQk0jIwmH0T NNTP-Posting-Host: 69.28.149.29 References: <396e3ff0-2a44-4d8b-917c-3b9205a567a6@googlegroups.com> User-Agent: G2/1.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-ID: Subject: Re: java software naming question From: Lew Injection-Date: Tue, 08 Jan 2013 02:33:47 +0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.java.programmer:21181 On Monday, January 7, 2013 6:04:09 PM UTC-8, Roedy Green wrote: > English is obsessed with plurality/number. You can't say anything > without being specific. It is similarly obsessed with gender. Unlike French, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese and a host of other languages, English does not have much in the way of feminine vs. masculine distinctions. So how is that "obsessed with gender"? Doesn't every language have a way of expressing "more than one"? How can a language be "obsessed"? -- Lew