re: #99 Occasional Reader

“Still”? I’m not aware of any movement away from it. English is part of the minority on this one, I think.

There are still vestiges of gender in English; Mankind, for instance.

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re: #112 Occasional Reader

Heh.

Of course I’m now going to nerdily correct/”improve” your joke:

(That’s the actual word used in Spain, who disdain the Latin American “la computadora”.)

High time more people realize that New World and Old World Spanish have become as distinct a dialect, if not outright a separate language, as have the OW/NW variants of English.