On Friday 05 October 2007, Heikki Johannes Junes wrote: > In Finnish: 'Minä, sinä, hän' are used for persons 'I, you, (s)he', all > neuter. > [etc.]
Fascinating. > Of flowers I do not know the gender---no example comes in my mind. What > makes > a flower a masculine or a feminine ? Should be only their stamen or carpel. Flowers, or by extension sometimes entire plants have gender. Ginkgo trees come to mind as being either male or female. You generally want to try to plant the male trees, because the females bear messy, stinky fruit. Many plants have flowers that are either male (only anthers) or female (only a pistil) either on the same plant, or on entirely separate plants. Pumpkins come to mind as having distinctly male or distinctly female flowers. Here's more than you ever wanted to know: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plant_sexuality -- D. Michael McIntyre ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. Download your FREE copy of Splunk now >> http://get.splunk.com/ _______________________________________________ Rosegarden-devel mailing list [email protected] - use the link below to unsubscribe https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/rosegarden-devel
