Comment on Why do some languages use gendered nouns?
Droggelbecher@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Because languages aren’t constructed, they ‘evolved’ naturally from humans communicating with one another for many generations. As such, they aren’t intended to be as simple as possible. They aren’t intended in the first place. They’ve grown over time with no regard for whether the rules makes sense because nobody designed those rules, they just happened.
jeena@jemmy.jeena.net 4 months ago
Esperanto is designed, and so is C++.
Droggelbecher@lemmy.world 4 months ago
I thought this was a discussion about languages people speak.
Esperanto is an interesting case though but it wasn’t designed to be as simple as a language can be (since that is highly subjective). It was designed to have as many similarities as possible to major European language in order to make it easier for speakers of those European languages to learn.
schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de 4 months ago
Not really. Your description fits Interlingua a lot better than Esperanto.
For example the word for “legalize” looks like legaliz- in lots of European languages, but in Esperanto it’s “laŭleĝigi” (laŭ = according to, leĝ = law, ig = cause to be, i = verb infinitive). There are many more examples like that, even the Internet is called Interreto in Esperanto.
qaz@lemmy.world 4 months ago
C++ is perhaps a great example of a language that has evolved over time without people putting a lot thought in it.
jeena@jemmy.jeena.net 4 months ago
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