Zinfandel

R R · 2003-10-17T04:23:06+00:00

I don't know why it is but Zinfandel is always associated as a woman'swine.I love the taste and don't see the logic behind this. How can one classifyanalcoholic beverage as male or female?? Cheers, Remo Rosati DIVINE INTERVENTION Available at over 50,000 bookstores & online

Oct 17, 2003 26 Replies

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Ian Hoare 22 years ago

Salut/Hi Jim,

le/on 26 Oct 2003 23:03:15 GMT, tu disais/you said:-

Well, the first time I saw one, I was pretty fascinated, having heard so much about them.

Chuckle. Think of something like a grasshopper with a strongly triangular head - eyes at the top apices - bright green, with wings, and instead of two large hind legs which grasshoppers use for jumping, two large forelegs, normally clamped together, but capable of being snapped open and shut again. The ones here aren't very big, I'd say about 3" long.

I'll see if I can find the photo I took a couple of years ago, and put it up on one of my web pages.

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Jim 22 years ago

Ian Hoare snipped-for-privacy@wanadoo.fr adds...

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Ian Hoare 22 years ago

Salut/Hi Jim,

le/on 27 Oct 2003 14:12:41 GMT, tu disais/you said:-

Not surprised.

I agree. Problem is that we will never find out if one of them didn't have the cure for some future ailment hidden in its genes.

Ah, we're lucky, we still have pretty good butterflies.

Can't speak for everywhere, but we always have a few each summer, not hundreds or even dozens, but a few is better than none at all.

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Lloyd 22 years ago

I dont see the logic either, because its not logical.

This is what you call stereotyping.

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Xyzsch 22 years ago

Isn't wine a noun? .... as in "der Wein".

Thus wine is masculine, but a young girl, "das Fraeulein", is neuter.

Sorry, I haven't installed the German character set.

Tom Schellberg

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Ian Hoare 22 years ago

Salut/Hi Xyzsch,

le/on 11 Nov 2003 18:55:49 GMT, tu disais/you said:-

Yes, but you mustn't make treat the thing to which the noun refers as being the same as the noun itself. Gender is purely gramatical and historically refers to the way in which the noun is changed as it is declined. A masculine, feminine or neuter noun has no implication as to the maleness or femaleness in the subjects.

So wine has no gender, humans (strictly) have no gender, they have sex!

To take an extreme example of the lack of connection, in french, a ladies external sexual organs are called "Le (m) sexe"!!!!!

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Eric Reichenbach 22 years ago

Agreed!......as I am pleasantly enjoying a '96 Biale "Aldo's Vineyard". Very nice!

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