Re: gender in French

[Richard Giering dick.giering@xxxxxxxx]

Bill:
 If you or anyone can find such a grammar checker please let me know as
I'm having the same trouble/problem in German with Der/das/die.
Dick Giering

Bill Troop wrote:
>
> >Can anyone advise me of software that checks for gender as well as
> >spelling in French? I still have terrible trouble with my le and la.
>
> You are not alone in this dreadful disorder, painted so well by Saki in the
> Boar Pig (available on the Internet by searching for boar pig saki with
> Google):
>
> 'Un cochon? Ah, le petit charmant!' exclaimed Matilda with enthusiasm.
>
> 'Mais non, pas du tout petit, et pas du tout charmant; un bête féroce--'
>
> 'Une bête,' corrected Matilda, 'a pig is masculine as long as you call it a
> pig, but if you lose your temper with it and call it a ferocious beast, it
> becomes one of us at once. French is a dreadfully unsexing language.'
>
> 'For goodness' sake let us speak English then,' said Mrs. Stossen.