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		WillPostForFood on Dec 13, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Cultures where men and women don’t speak the same ... Those words are differentiated on the object, not the gender of the speaker.

ggrrhh_ta on Dec 13, 2021 [–]

I was trying to give an example similar to obrigado/obrigada in English.

WillPostForFood on Dec 13, 2021 | [–]

OK, but neither are examples of language being different based on the speaker, they are both based on gender of the object, whether is is contextually yourself, or another.

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