Ah, I had figured it was most likely that you were just simply not on her staff. ;)
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I don't those two are like German. As far as I know of course!
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Example for 1) exist in their thousands.
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Like head: female word for head means leader — neutral word for head means head.
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Interesting. In German there is der See (lake/inland) and die See (sea/ocean). Pretty much one of the only gender minimal pairs…
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Yeah, and neither of them are metaphorical — so even that example is dramatically different.
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Leave Greek to be used for coining “metaphor”, and then demonstrate it through grammatical gender!
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The word itself means meta + carry.

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You failed to calque “meta”, it is now so ingrained as a concept in English. ;)
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So, this is different. German tends to have a “default” gender for an Animal. (Mouse is F, but dog is M.) With alternates for other genders.
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Yes, this is why I told you it's different.

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Learning cool things about Grammatical Gender, yay! \o/
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