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by greglindahl 3273 days ago
I was speaking about gendered nouns. They help me resolve pronouns.
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Oops I'm sorry about the mansplaining then. Can you give an example? I'm struggling to conceive what you mean.
The nouns for heel, foot, and toe have gender. When I get to the end of a dance step mentioning all 3, and it says "and in the final beat you lift <pronoun>", I use the clue that the pronoun gender should match the noun gender to try to finger out what the antecedent is.