How do they make things easier? (Asking as a German).
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Lath@kbin.social 8 months agoGerman.
cali_ash@lemmy.wtf 8 months ago
Lath@kbin.social 8 months ago
It's a mouthful, but concise. (Telling as a non-german).
cali_ash@lemmy.wtf 8 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 8 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 8 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 8 months ago
Deutsch ist total einfach. Weiß doch jeder.
Chozo@kbin.social 8 months ago
Gerwoman.