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Still has gender, fuck gendered languages.
Imagine not knowing the gender of an inanimate object at first sight, couldn’t be me
Just check whether it has a dick.
I can offer you Esperanto. No inherent gender but they got cases. And also gendered endings for people words.
Tagalog is a lot closer, the only gendered words are Spanish loan words (except maybe mom/dad), because of course they are.
Pronouns:
- he/she - siya
- his/her - niya
Relations (add “na lalaki” for boys, or “na babae” for girls) :
- son/daughter - anak
- brother/sister - kapatid
- grandson/granddaughter - apo
In English, I ask how many brothers and sisters someone has, but in Tagalog I just ask how many siblings they are. Ilan (how many) kayong (are you) magkakapatid (siblings as a group)? They can give a simple answer, or specify boys and girls, it’s great! Asking about boys/girls takes too long, so nobody bothers.
Esperanto still has those weird -in- and -iĉ- suffixes. They aren’t a grammatical gender system, but… come on.
I kind of like them but I just wish the “base” was neuter e.g. avo would be grandparent, then avino could stay grandmother and something else could be grandfather. Overall I think the modularity is neat
i.e. optional suffixes to highlight social gender, but the default was neuter? I’d like it better than the current system, but I think that the suffixes aren’t even necessary - if you need to specify the gender, you can simply plop some additional word and call it a day.
That’s a piece of criticism in retrospect though. Social awareness of gender issues was way lower in Zamenhof’s times than now, not really blaming him.
Man picking a fight with half the world. Also what do you mean gendered languages? All languages are obviously female.
Seven - there’s a locative nobody remembers, because it’s only used for small islands, cities, and for “rus” (locative ruri - in the countryside). Or four if you’re one of those sick fucks who study Late Latin (NOM/ACC/GEN/ABL).
Aren’t there technically five cases, just they’re only expressed through pronouns (like the accusative in English)?
allright.
Spelling gaffe or dropped space? I don’t get this partof the joke.
Fixed!
All except for the accusative because why would you keep the nominative when you can also keep the accusative
