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The Awful German Language (1880)

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189 points nalinidash | 1 comments | 16 May 25 04:09 UTC | HN request time: 0.202s | source
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penguin_booze ◴[16 May 25 12:57 UTC] No.44004917[source]▶
I would outlaw noun gendering globally. Does it serve any semantic purpose? It does damn good job at making learning unnecessarily difficult.
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1. wongarsu ◴[16 May 25 13:10 UTC] No.44005070[source]▶
It adds some additional entropy without making the words themselves longer. This both helps when communicating over an imperfect communication channel, like talking in a noisy place.

A minor benefit is that references with words like "this" are less ambiguous when gendered, and you can unambiguously reference multiple things as long as they have different gender