English is a disaster but it has one great thing that many other languages lack, the grammatical construct of neutral gender
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it may be uncommon among its fellow European languages, but I don't know if it is globally Japanese and Mandarin Chinese come to mind…
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i know! sorry
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Replying to @hikari_no_yume @0xabad1dea
... and then you have spanish, where EVERYTHING is gendered
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Replying to @marisa_desu @0xabad1dea
TODOS
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Replying to @hikari_no_yume @0xabad1dea
also it's kind of arbitrary what things are male and what are female
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It seems to mostly inherit down the class hierarchy... but the roots are totally arbitrary.
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