bullpies!
i don’t like English, but those are things it does right!
who the hell needs TWELVE definite articles?!
Comment on why
Darkness343@lemmy.world 6 days ago
English is such a poor language that they only have the article The and nouns without genders.
Seethe and cope.
_Nico198X_@europe.pub 6 days ago
Darkness343@lemmy.world 6 days ago
Speakers of enlightened languages?
FatVegan@leminal.space 6 days ago
And they still have trouble learning it.
nightlily@leminal.space 5 days ago
So poor they held to sell off cases as well.
QuestionMark@lemmy.world 6 days ago
My native language doesn’t have any articles and there is no distinction between he and she.
Hjalamanger@feddit.nu 6 days ago
May I ask what language that may be?
QuestionMark@lemmy.world 5 days ago
It’s Persian.
I’ve noticed a lot of gendered words seemingly have roots in Arabic: the words for paternal uncle, paternal aunt, maternal aunt, and maternal uncle for example. I guess the neutrality is something that survived of our ancient culture.
The history (of Persia and the language) is deeply fascinating, but also confusing, and at times you’ll come across contradictions. There are so many lies and different perspectives. I regret my ignorance when it comes to this topic.
Hjalamanger@feddit.nu 4 days ago
Thanks (:
Buddahriffic@lemmy.world 5 days ago
Japanese?
QuestionMark@lemmy.world 5 days ago
Nope. It’s Persian (also known as Farsi, or Parsi).
Persian’s roots are actually closer to English than Arabic: Persian is an Indo-European language, same as English, while Arabic is a Semitic language.
Dumhuvud@programming.dev 6 days ago
How progressive.