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

  • raef@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    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