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irmamar March 08, 2011 01:16 AM

Rubia
 
She is blond/blonde :?:

Thanks. :)

Perikles March 08, 2011 03:29 AM

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Originally Posted by irmamar (Post 107136)
She is blond/blonde :?:

She is blonde. She is a blonde. An adjective and noun stolen from French, retaining the feminine ending.:)

JPablo March 08, 2011 01:25 PM

The boys at Random House (Unabridged) say this,

The spelling BLONDE is still widely used for the noun that specifies a woman or girl with fair hair: The blonde with the baby in her arms is my anthropology professor. Some people object to this as an unnecessary distinction, preferring BLOND for all persons: My sister is thinking of becoming a blond for a while. As an adjective, the word is more usually spelled BLOND in reference to either sex (an energetic blond girl; two blond sons), although the form BLONDE is occasionally still used of a female: the blonde model and her escort. The spelling BLOND is almost always used for the adjective describing hair, complexion, etc.: His daughter has blond hair and hazel eyes.

(By the by, the other day I read some jokes by blonds about brunettes and red-haired... but that's a horse o another hue...)

Perikles March 08, 2011 02:01 PM

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Originally Posted by JPablo (Post 107159)
Some people object to this as an unnecessary distinction, preferring BLOND for all persons:

I suppose they are the same people who use actor instead of the correct word actress. I feel sorry for their sexual issues.

JPablo March 08, 2011 02:49 PM

Same here... (Reverte had one last "Patente de Corso" on the same subject, just last Sunday...)

irmamar March 09, 2011 05:56 AM

I understand that I can use both when writing formally, can't I?

poli March 09, 2011 06:28 AM

Yes. As a noun I would use blonde when it means female with blond hair.
Example: Marilyn Monroe was a beautiful blonde.

irmamar March 09, 2011 12:26 PM

Thanks. I want to write: "She is blond/blonde, but not stupid". This is an example of a kind of sentence in my notes (very formal, by the way). :)

poli March 10, 2011 06:07 AM

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Originally Posted by irmamar (Post 107215)
Thanks. I want to write: "She is blond/blonde, but not stupid". This is an example of a kind of sentence in my notes (very formal, by the way). :)

Both are correct, but when referring to a female I personally would use blonde. When referring to hair with no particular gender I would use blond. When referring to a man I would use blond.

irmamar March 10, 2011 06:51 AM

OK, thanks everybody. :)


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