• Rozaŭtuno@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    2 months ago

    It’d be more accurate to call it ‘noun classes’ than gender.

    And that’s exactly what they’re called in other languages like Hawaiian and Swahili.

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      2 months ago

      Well, yes. But not for Indo-European languages which is… mostly a historical artifact. But we’re still sticking to teaching traditional grammar using traditional terminology, which is super frustrating. Imagine if you kept teaching maths in a manner which you knew was fundamentally wrong, but it was just too much work to reeducate all maths teachers.