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From: kjfair@midway.uchicago.edu (Kenneth Fair)
Subject: Re: IF and other languages
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Regarding gendered nouns:  Couldn't you just include an attribute (at least
in Inform; I don't know TADS) that would store the gender of a particular
object?  Then you would just have the article routines check the gender
and return the appropriate article.  It'd be a pain, but not nearly
as complex as some other problems (like dealing with elision in French).

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