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Re: G1- one in a hundred (yet again)...

Posted By: azrael
Date: 12 June 2001, 17:33

In Response To: Re: G1- one in a hundred (yet again)... (Bloodrain)

> OK, first off, all languages are "seething with error and
> patternless, scattershot confusion." For instance, there is no rhyme
> or reason to why most nouns are assigned masculine, feminine or neuter
> gender in the languages that do so.

> English has managed to do away with a lot of relatively unnecessary
> vocabulary in favor of syntactic structures. We don't need nominative,
> genetive, dative, subjunctive or any of those other cases for nouns -- why
> decline a noun when you can get the proper meaning from sentence
> structure? (To be accurate, we do still decline pronouns: I, me, my; he,
> him, his; etc.) Why should a table, a tree or a car need a gender?

I'm not saying we need to give tables, trees and cars genders, I just think that languages with more structure than English are better. Just to clarify.

--az

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