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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Lath@kbin.social 4 months agoIt's a mouthful, but concise. (Telling as a non-german).
raef@lemmy.world 4 months ago
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.
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.
cali_ash@lemmy.wtf 4 months ago
The title of this post is “Why do some languages use gendered nouns?” …
Lath@kbin.social 4 months ago
I was replying to a comment, not the title.