On Sunday 22 November 2015 04:10:01 Mario Castelán Castro wrote: > Ignorant native English speakers seem to have too much trouble > comprehending that grammatical gender in general does not imply the sex > of the subject to which it is applied. In Spanish as in many other > languages, we routinely use nouns with grammatical gender to refer to > both sexes or unspecified (For example: "Los estudiantes" -> "The > students(male)" does not exclude females students, neither does "Las > victimas" -> "The victims(female)" exclude males).
There are very few cases in English where gender and sex are different. So of course most English people don't understand it. You find me a Spaniard who can understand English tenses and moods correctly. Lisi
