ABSTRACT

There are some pronouns which do not require any sex distinction, thus me'!, (one can easily see which is the sex of the speaker, without having expressly to say it); thus also the pronoun for the second person vu, and similarly the reflexive se: 10 admira se he admires himself; la admira se she admires herself; los admira se, etc. With the interrogative pronoun, the distinction may be made: quo what man, qua what woman; but generally the common-sex form que will be used: que dikted tum? 'Who said that ?'-as the speaker could not know beforehand whether it was a man or a woman. The old Romans sometimes asked: Quis quceve dixit illud?