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

  • @raef
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    19 months ago

    Sometimes more specific (sometimes. Verbs carry some widely different meaning and depend on propositions to differentiate), but not always more concise. If you’ve done or compared German-English translations, you see the English is always shorter, both in word and—especially in—character counts. My experience has been usually about 20, up to 30, percent.