Comment on Why do some languages use gendered nouns?
Skua@kbin.social 8 months agoYour cat example works because it shows an example that is ambiguous in English but not in German. Zezhin's example was showing something that wasn't ambiguous in English, a language with no noun class distinctions, so there's no benefit to having noun classes in that example
Wasgaytsiedasan@feddit.de 8 months ago
He was showing how gendered words can resolve ambiguity in an example were this also applies in english, so that you can extrapolate to situations like the one I (or the other replies) showed.