Thread: Домашние обязанности и традиции в разных странах

Originally Posted by Deborski

Joy's a girl too ))

Oh, I have to apologize, Joy. That's perhaps the only thing I I don't like about this site. People are faceless here. I definitely feel uncomfortable being unaware of a person's gender, country of living, native language, target language, age (at least approximately, like 20-30 or 30-40).

Btw, the Russian language has its advantages over English in this regard. If Joy were Russian she would say in her post #13

После того, как я вчера вернулась, я думаю, я так наелась, что заснула.

instead of the original

After I got back last night I think I ate so much that I was falling asleep.

And I would be certain of her gender.

Originally Posted by Lena

Oh, I have to apologize, Joy. That's perhaps the only thing I I don't like about this site. People are faceless here. I definitely feel uncomfortable being unaware of a person's gender, country of living, native language, target language, age (at least approximately, like 20-30 or 30-40).

Btw, the Russian language has its advantages over English in this regard. If Joy were Russian she would say in her post #13

После того, как я вчера вернулась, я думаю, я так наелась, что заснула.

instead of the original

After I got back last night I think I ate so much that I was falling asleep.

And I would be certain of her gender.

That is something that you will get used to after a while. I actually welcomed it when I was learning English. My first language is Spanish and those words have gender.

Originally Posted by Joyan

That is something that you will get used to after a while. I actually welcomed it when I was learning English. My first language is Spanish and those words have gender.

I got used to the absense of genders in the English language long ago and have been taking it for granted since then. It is absense of the most essential information about a person in their profiles that confuses and embarrases me.