Word: neutering
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According to the author, in his experience "[gay men are] markedly different from straight men, although to varying degrees...Even gays who consider themselves 'straight-acting' seem to me at best neuter...
...interested to read your article of January 11 concerning the new co-ed social club "Philos." I wonder if its membership realizes that "philos" is, in Greek, a masculine adjective. Might I suggest "philon," which is the neuter of that adjective, or "philotes," which is a feminine noun meaning "friendship." Robert A. Oden...
...GERmany included. Commenting on the October meeting of NATO Defense Ministers in Scotland, Herbert Kremp, foreign-affairs columnist for Die Welt, lamented that "nothing happens in Europe" because Germany, the logical power to pick up the U.S. slack, remains in the eyes of its political elite "a neuter yearning for the bliss of inferiority." Said Kremp: "The international security system has collapsed insofar as it covers Europe. If the U.S. does not lead, no one does," he added...
...complaint. "Your feet are in both camps, but your heart is in neither," observes Eric. "You have the opportunity to experience a kind of richness, but you constantly feel you have to make a choice." But forcing a selection may not be the wisest course. "You create a sexual neuter if you attempt to wipe out one set of feelings over the other," warns Wedin. "The more you attempt to repress it, the greater the disruption it tends to cause in the other set of feelings...
...left exhausted and bewildered after navigating through cascades of clauses that lead to the elusive verb at the very end that explains everything. For sheer frustration, however, little compares with the task of remembering what gender each noun is and hence whether a der (masculine), die (feminine) or das (neuter) needs to be affixed in front of it. And then, of course, there are the declensions...