Originally Posted By: Faldage
It wasn't till we basically dumped the concept of gender as a grammatical concept and transfered the word over to the biological realm that we lost track of its original meaning.


Are you suggesting that humans recognized gender in language before they recognized it in the biological world, or are you refering specifically to the word, "gender?"

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