 To describe a "bridge", which is feminine in German and masculine in Spanish, the German speakers said "beautiful", "elegant", "fragile", "peaceful", "pretty" and "slender", and the Spanish speakers said "big", "dangerous", "long", "strong", "sturdy" and "towering".This was the case even though all testing was done in English, a language without grammatical gender.In a series of studies conducted by Gary Lupyan, people were asked to look at a series of images of imaginary aliens.