How do they make things easier? (Asking as a German).
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Lath@kbin.social 10 months agoGerman.
cali_ash@lemmy.wtf 10 months ago
Lath@kbin.social 10 months ago
It's a mouthful, but concise. (Telling as a non-german).
cali_ash@lemmy.wtf 10 months ago
I agree that German is concise. I just don’t see what the gendered nouns are contributing to that quality.
Lath@kbin.social 10 months ago
Who said anything about gendered nouns? The question was about greater complexity making things easier.
In my eyes, the German language achieves that.
raef@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Sometimes more specific (sometimes. Verbs carry some widely different meaning and depend on propositions to differentiate), but not always more concise. If you’ve done or compared German-English translations, you see the English is always shorter, both in word and—especially in—character counts. My experience has been usually about 20, up to 30, percent.
Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Deutsch ist total einfach. Weiß doch jeder.
Chozo@kbin.social 10 months ago
Gerwoman.