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stickyprimer@lemmy.world 3 weeks agoEnglish is a wreck of three other languages but at least we escaped gendered nouns and adjectives. That’s got to be the most pointless language feature of all time.
Treczoks@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Even in English, nouns have gender, even though the articles don’t show it.
stickyprimer@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Your point, she is not making sense.
porous_grey_matter@lemmy.ml 3 weeks ago
Not really, even that has almost completely fallen out of use. Everything except people and anthropomorphized animals like pets are ‘it’; nobody’s going around calling ships and newspapers ‘she’ anymore except people holding on to extremely quaint historical oddity.