Re: Vintage?
Originally Posted by
pops1
Sometimes I think I have gotten more English schooling here than in high school. My mandolins don't have gender, they are mandolins.
That's rather archaic. Don't we call them persondolins these days?
Originally Posted by
rcc56
I find it interesting that in the Romance languages, the words for violin are masculine, while guitar is feminine, and mandolin is feminine in some languages but masculine in others.
When you figure out the logic of gender in French, please explain it to the rest of it. (My linguist daughter tells me that agreement of the noun and adjective in French has to do with the sound of the two words together rather than with any characteristics of the item referred to by the noun.)
Robert Johnson's mother, describing blues musicians:
"I never did have no trouble with him until he got big enough to be round with bigger boys and off from home. Then he used to follow all these harp blowers, mandoleen (sic) and guitar players."
Lomax, Alan, The Land where The Blues Began, NY: Pantheon, 1993, p.14.
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