Comment on Why do some languages use gendered nouns?

• Chozo@kbin.social ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Gerwoman.

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• cali_ash@lemmy.wtf ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  How do they make things easier? (Asking as a German).

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  • Lath@kbin.social ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    It's a mouthful, but concise. (Telling as a non-german).

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    • cali_ash@lemmy.wtf ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I agree that German is concise. I just don’t see what the gendered nouns are contributing to that quality.

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      • Lath@kbin.social ⁨4⁩ ⁨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.

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    • raef@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨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.

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• Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Deutsch ist total einfach. Weiß doch jeder.

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