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Tuesday, June 30, 2009 12:00 AM

The baby's a...we're not telling!

Parents of 2-year-old refuse to reveal child's gender
Katharine Mieszkowski

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  • Tuesday, June 30, 2009 12:08 PM

    This could only work in some countries

    Because of the language. I am Mexican, and in spanish and other romance languages (such as italian, portuguese and french) nouns and verbs have gender-specific forms. You cannot refer to a baby as "it" in spanish. It either is a she-baby or a he-baby.

    I don't know about swedish, but I guess it's got to be english-like for the parents to get away with this.

    —Mario A. Ortega Read Mario A. Ortega's other letters

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