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82: Frogs, pears, and more staples from linguistics example sentences

Lingthusiasm - A podcast that's enthusiastic about linguistics

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The Gender Stereotyping of Sentences

A lot of these examples are coming from like the 60s and 70s. And they sort of present this very kind of bucolic view of what types of things people talk about. I noticed that there's a lot more male entities in several of these examples. It might be that gender signifiers in different cultures are different, so some people read these stories and read the characters as female.

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