The Christian Science Monitor – Melissa Mohr
“Languages have gender if they separate nouns into classes, which then affects adjectives and other parts of speech. Germanic languages often have three genders – masculine, feminine, and neuter – which don’t necessarily correspond to human gender. As Mark Twain famously quipped, “In German, a young lady has no sex, but a turnip has.” In English, if a girl is eating a turnip, she is eating it; in German, it is eating her.” (more)