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vacri
on April 28, 2017
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Gender and verbs across 100K stories: a tidy analy...
A Bulgarian colleague of mine said that even surnames are gendered - her surname is Nakova, her father's is Nakov. It plays merry hell with admin software from anglo nations which assume surnames aren't gendered, apparently.
viraptor
on April 28, 2017
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Same in Czech, which I believe still enforces the -ova ending. (Please correct me if that changed)
phillc73
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Not just Bulgarian. I know Latvian surnames have the same concept. Probably others too.
3131s
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Russian too, I'm pretty sure from watching years of tennis. Marat Safin, for example, and his sister Dinara Safina.
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