I agree it's very baffling, but I can't imagine not knowing what gender something is instinctively. Like when people give male names to 'female' things or call everything IT (I always want to say he for a car or she for a chair)...
You think that's baffling, try having seven cases and change word forms of nouns, adjectives, numbers for all seven of them, LOL!
This message was edited 7/20/2009, 2:42 PM