Re: This is he or this is him?

the inimitable Tamakazura <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] on 03 Nov 2003: 

> CyberCypher wrote:
> 
> 
>>>In Japanese, "watashi desu" can be used by both men and women. 
>>>Isn't it nice?
>> 
>> 
>> Yes, that is nice. No problem with the stupidity of allegedly
>> sexist pronouns, except, of course, for "kare" and "kanojo". In
>> Chinese, it's "ta" for "he", "she", and "it", but the kanji give
>> away the gender. 
> 
> Yeah, Chinese is much closer to English than Japanese in most
> aspect. 

But Japanese seems to me a much more grammatically reasonable language 
than either Chinese or English.