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   Skadi (skadi@bolha.us)'s status on Thursday, 05-Dec-2024 23:53:32 JST Skadi

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   • Nigel

   @nigelharpur

   I speak Portuguese and had to learn French, and both share the same Latin roots, but the gender isn't always the same between the two 😅.
   German is also gendered (3 genders).

   It's very stupid to have gendered nouns :)

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     Nigel (nigelharpur@musicians.today)'s status on Thursday, 05-Dec-2024 23:53:33 JST Nigel

     As a kid trying (failing dismally) to learn French, I never got my head around the gendering of nouns. Coming from a language that doesn't have that it just seemed rather bizarre. However it seems to be a very common practice in languages and I wonder if anyone can tell me if 'most' languages have gendered nouns or whether (like English) they don't?
     #linguistics #askfedi