German grammar with the natural gender of what is described. However, since the diminutive forms ending in "-chen" or "-lein" are grammatically neuter, there exist several notable counterexamples such as "das Mädchen" ("girl") and "das Fräulein" ("miss"). Thus these are not illogical, whereas "das Weib" (old, regional or anthropological: woman; a cognate of the English "wife") is really an exception. Furthermore, in German, the gender of nouns without natural gender is not predictable. For example, the three common pieces of cutlery all have different genders: "das Messer" ("knife") is neuter, "die Gabel" ("fork") is feminine, and "der Löffel" ("spoon") is masculine. Students
Jonathan Messer in pre-production on the Todd Haynes film "Far from Heaven". Messer also received a Queen Elizabeth Scholarship Trust (Australia) and an Ian Potter Foundation Grant to pursue his MFA at the AFI. Messer is a graduate director from the National Institute of Dramatic Art, in Sydney. He has also worked in London at the BBC as an Assistant Director and Floor Assistant in Drama and Light Entertainment on the shows "Absolutely Fabulous", "Top of the Pops", "Blue Peter", and "The Hello Girls". He is currently at Edith Cowan University in Western Australia doing a degree. Messer is also a photographer,