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NAME

Lingua::EN::Gender - Inflect pronouns for gender

SYNOPSIS

   use Lingua::EN::Gender;

   print &genders();

   if (&is_valid_gender("male")) { ...

DESCRIPTION

Small module for inflecting pronouns for a bunch of different genders.

Genders currently supported are: neuter male female either spivak splat plural egotistical royal 2nd sie/hir zie/zir

FUNCTIONS

pronoun ( TYPE, GENDER )

Returns the appropriate pronoun word for that pronoun type and gender.

The types (examples for the male gender in brackets) are: subjective ("he") objective ("him") posessive-subjective ("his") posessive-objective ("his") reflexive ("himself")

Simply returns an array containing all the valid genders.

Returns true/false depending if the argument is a gender we know about. Case is not significant.

AUTHOR

Bek Oberin <bekj@netizen.com.au>

COPYRIGHT

Copyright (c) 1999 Bek Oberin. All rights reserved.

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.

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