Unless you are planning on having sex with an alien, why would you care if it were male or female or neither?
To direct them to the correct bathroom?
To buy the right sort of clothing as a gift?
To correctly recommend either a urologist or gynecologist?
Any number of other reasons that might come up?
Some trees are considered male and others of its species female, but unless you are seeking fertile fruit, most people never bother to figure out whether a tree is a he or a she.
Because in English trees are never he or she;
they're always it, regardless of their sexual properties.
Klingon doesn’t have sexually classified gender like English does. Most languages don’t.
English only has biological gender in its singular third-person
pronouns, it only applies to some cases of biological sex, and it
has no kind of gender agreement. The only way you could say that
most language don't have the sort of gender that English has is to
say that most languages have more extensive gender systems. Modern
English effectively has no gender.
Gender can have all kinds of categorization systems, like marking the difference between old words vs. newer words borrowed from some other language. Klingon gender has to do with marking the difference between beings capable of using language, body parts, and everything else. Biological sex role has nothing to do with it.
So, in Klingon, you’d be less interested in noting that it wasn’t male or female (since there is no “he” or “she” or “it” to use as the pronoun when discussing the alien), but instead, you’d be trying to figure out whether it used language.
And yet there are still situations in which you want to express the biological sex of someone or something, so there should be a way to do it, and you should be able to discuss it.
(There are a couple of extreme cases of gender in English. For instance, some maintain that the difference between blond and blonde is as in French: the -e makes the adjective feminine, and should be used when referring to blond(e) women. Others maintain that this distinction belongs to French, not English, and that blond should be used for all people with this color hair.)
Back to the original question: sorry, I can't think of a better
way to say neuter than to say be' 'oHbe'; loD 'oHbe'
or variations thereof.
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