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3:51pm, 19 Oct 2022
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Diogenes
I'm convinced that most language rules and grammar are too complicated to bother learning, and only hinder mastering every day speech.
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3:55pm, 19 Oct 2022
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jabberknit
Although there is some research that would suggest that gender may influence the way adjectives are used in languages with grammatical genders. The speaker briefly discusses this in the TED talk:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RKK7wGAYP6k

All interesting, but the relevant bit starts about 8 minutes in.
Oct 2022
4:04pm, 19 Oct 2022
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GlennR
Diogenes, out of the languages I know something about, Russian and Hebrew are two that you’d never get anywhere with without learning the grammar.
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4:10pm, 19 Oct 2022
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Diogenes
GlennR as usual my opinions are based on a very high level of ignorance
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4:22pm, 19 Oct 2022
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GlennR
We're very lucky with English Dio, it is very much "it is the way it is" and that's how we learn it. In either Russian or Hebrew the word for "sat" in the phrase "the cat sat on the mat" changes with the gender of the cat.
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5:16pm, 19 Oct 2022
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ThorntonRunner
Is there a default when you want to comment on a random cat in the street that you can't ascertain the gender of?
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5:31pm, 19 Oct 2022
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GlennR
Male, true in most gendered languages I think.
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6:19pm, 19 Oct 2022
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Eynsham Red
Male, true in most gendered languages I think.
Shouldn’t we be being more inclusive in these more enlightened days 🤔😉
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7:37pm, 19 Oct 2022
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GlennR
Easy enough in English, trickier in some other languages. In Russian for example you can't refer to a cat as "it". However, in the present tense the male and female forms of the verb are the same. It is the past form that is the problem.
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8:20pm, 19 Oct 2022
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Groundhog
What's inside a 9v battery. It's 6 x 1.5v batteries wired in series.
They are not quite AAA size, though they might actually be. Is have to take apart a AAA to see what's inside.

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