Those are just esoteric or poetic uses. It’s perfectly fine to just say “it” in all those cases, but there is still a distinction for people. It’s worth considering the possibilities of that disappearing as well. In any case, we don’t conjugate differently for genders
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Nemo@midwest.social 9 months ago
Complexity is a benefit when it comes to language, as it allows greater or more robust transfer of information. There’s a good comment downthread about how gender makes a language more robust: you know which object a pronoun refers to.
I’ll point out that English is not free of gendered nouns, either: Ships, cities, and most nations are feminine, for example.
raef@lemmy.world 9 months ago
livus@kbin.social 9 months ago
Ships maybe but the other two are only feminine to old people. Even the stodgiest newspaper isn't saying things like "The US sends her ambassador".