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Originally Posted by mekdroid
He,he!
That is why we have the endings that indicate sex in Spanish! The problem is that we apply them to everything, including a good many things that would best be left neutral. Some non-native speakers I know basically use the endings at random, on the assumption that they will be right about half of the time :-)
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In one or two cases of words which were neuter in Latin they're right 100% of the time. (The most obvious one being the sea.
La mar may be quaint outside Ecuador, but it's not strictly
wrong).