> Worse, nowadays you have all the problems of misaddressing and offending folks. Languages are tightly inherited, even more so than genes. How languages are s

> Worse, nowadays you have all the problems of misaddressing and offending folks. Languages are tightly inherited, even more so than genes. How languages are structured varies highly. Some have gender-like tenses for the cardinal directions, where things are not feminine but 'northy'. Some have no genders, but do have time-like tenses, where things are 'future-y' or 'present-y'. Just look at sign-language, with it's use of height similar to an exclamation point in English at times. Human communication is weird. Even in English, our sense of gender has changed over time. It used to be that we cared more about the number of items/people over their gender, but now we care about the gender. IE: Thee/Thou/You/ became Him/Her/You. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gender_in_English https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gender_in_English English is, herself, a pidgin language. The irregularity of the verbs and the reliance on context make it very accommodating to new terms and nouns, but VERY difficult to learn fluently. It is standardizing though, the Afro/Urban-American vernacular use of 'be' is a perfect example (I be going to the store, not, I am going to the store). This change of 'be' is very similar to the romance languages. English is very slowly being wrenched into standardization. It will be very interesting to see how Chinese and Computer Programming languages affect English. The Story of English is a great look into this language and it's story: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mj9jJiPwsp0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mj9jJiPwsp0