Why do some languages use gendered nouns? It seems to just add more complexity for no benefit.

    • Ashy@lemmy.wtf
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      10 months ago

      I agree that German is concise. I just don’t see what the gendered nouns are contributing to that quality or any other one.

      • Lath@kbin.social
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        10 months ago

        Who said anything about gendered nouns? The question was about greater complexity making things easier.
        In my eyes, the German language achieves that.

        • Ashy@lemmy.wtf
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          10 months ago

          Who said anything about gendered nouns?

          The title of this post is “Why do some languages use gendered nouns?” …

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              10 months ago

              But that comment is in response to a another comment that is direclty about the title … did you just forgot the context of the entire conversation only 2 replies in?

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                10 months ago

                Why would I care about context? Comment had a question, I had an answer. Problem solved.
                Context is unimportant.