SC - Cooks' titles...
Woeller D
angeliq1 at erols.com
Fri Jan 16 18:41:25 PST 1998
Mordonnade wrote:
>
> In a message dated 98-01-15 00:52:47 EST, you write:
>
> <<
> un chef de cuisine is a french phrase, which says nothing about the
> gender of the person who holds that particular office. >>
>
> Sorry, m'dear, but from what I remember from my high-school French, Un Chef is
> decidedly male
>
> Mordonna
So is Le Professeur, but I assure you le professeur peut etre une femme.
('The teacher can be a woman', fer you uni-linguals)
The 'case' of a title can be masculine, regardless of the gender of the
person the title applies to. Ahhh, French, the language of love AND
equality....
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