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

  • @Droggelbecher@lemmy.world
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    1451 year ago

    Because languages aren’t constructed, they ‘evolved’ naturally from humans communicating with one another for many generations. As such, they aren’t intended to be as simple as possible. They aren’t intended in the first place. They’ve grown over time with no regard for whether the rules makes sense because nobody designed those rules, they just happened.