Comment on Imagine there was a society in which blue eyed people are referred to with blee/bler pronouns, and green eyed people are referred to with glee/gler pronouns...

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AbouBenAdhem@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

There are plenty of examples of languages with two, three, or no grammatical genders (which don’t always correlate with biological genders—e.g., some languages see ”animate” and “inanimate” as genders.)

If it isn’t arbitrary, why is there so much variation?

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