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Originally Posted by seasoned  Have you REALLY taken a look at German? A female can go from neuter to masculine, to feminine! When I heard, like when I was 7yo, that German had 3 genders, I thought it would be EASY! But the OBJECT doesn't have gender, it is the WORD! So the SAME exact idea can have all three genders(depending on the word used to express it)!
Also, a lot of languages have genders. One has to wonder why though. Sometimes the same word means totally different things if you use a different gender. BTW Some languages, such as Hindi and Arabic, even change for the first person depending on the speaker's sex!
BTW in reference to my using DET for they, sorry, I slipped up. 8-(
Steve |
heh, that's why English is easier in this sense. No genders. Another thing about German is its cases. Genative/Nominative/etc. They're incredibly confusing...I wish I could learn them subconsciously as I did in English. Seriously who the hell thinks in English "I need to pick out the indirect object in the sentence and know to use the dative form." *claws eyes out*