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Old 29.08.2008, 16:43
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Re: Deciding gender for unknown objects

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You poor misguided soul - Fowler's "The Kings English" is all a gentleman needs.



I knew Germany had been occupied but I hadn't realise it was classified as a colony.

(lets see who gets that one !!)
Go on then, I'll have a guess - anything to do with enforced usage adoption of the colonising country's language? Now let's see would that be language of the colonisor being imposed upon the colonisee?
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