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

  • Cris@lemmy.world
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    Super interesting perspective. As a person with a complicated relationship with gender it’s always seemed purely like a nuisance to me: that it would just further complicate the conversations about gender that are already so semantically tedious and fatiguing in English.

    I appreciate you broadening my perspective to include more than one way of looking at the subject

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      It’s just a strange name for a more or less arbitrary way to group words together. It has close to nothing to do with gender as identity.