> a society that makes its members memorize such useless information That is a really strange angle on the subject of native language. If there's any language

> a society that makes its members memorize such useless information That is a really strange angle on the subject of native language. If there's any language my society has made me learn, it's the one I'm writing now, my second (and absolutely indispensable) one. The gendering of nouns (in my national case, two genders) and sundry other weird historical linguistic baggage is just the way things are and ever were.