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Why don't you just use neuter? Already used daily. Didn't English the also came from neuter if I'm not mistaken?
by inawarminister 5y ago
Why don't you just use neuter? Already used daily. Didn't English the also came from neuter if I'm not mistaken?
- eska 5y agoIt’s a kind of forward error correction for us. Even if you speak fast under noisy conditions I can tell what you said because certain options collide with the surrounding grammar. Removing this would lead to misunderstandings and more „what did you say?“. For people that already speak the language it is therefore purely a loss.
- bmn__ 5y ago> Didn't English the also came from neuter if I'm not mistaken? Confirming, you are mistaken. English used to be 3-gendered (system m,f,n) like its linguistic predecessors and neighbours, only lost it in the 14th century with scant traces remaining. <https://i2.wp.com/antigonejournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/EuropeGenderMap.png https://i2.wp.com/antigonejournal.com/wp-content/uploads/202...>
- inawarminister 5y agoYeah, the articles the comes from masculine, that from feminine, and this from the neuter demonstrative. That's what I was talking about. It seems I was mistaken, no wonder Interlingua makers used Romance masculine demonstrative le for their universal article due to using English as grammatical source. Ille, illos, illa Le, les, los, las, etc Romance languages inventing gendered articles from gendered demonstratives is always fun. (Especially since my language, Malay, has no grammatical gender at all, not even in the third person; and have no regularized article.) [0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_English_grammar#Demonstratives https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_English_grammar#Demonstr...