General   (General discussion, talk about anything.)

Apologies, ianp, of course you are right. I had not wished to imply languages were logical. Perhaps I should have been more explicit. Inanimate Nouns: English has largely ceased to gender them, French does, but fairly logically. German however shows no respect to logic. 'Girl' is not feminine, but neuter. (Das Mädchen)

Some discussion of this here

The relationship between language and logic takes us very deep into the tangles of philosophy.