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minus-squareDarkness343@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up9arrow-down3·1 day agoEnglish is such a poor language that they only have the article The and nouns without genders. Seethe and cope.
minus-squareQuestionMark@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up5·1 day agoMy native language doesn’t have any articles and there is no distinction between he and she.
minus-squareQuestionMark@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·2 hours agoNope. It’s Persian (also known as Farsi, or Parsi). Persian’s roots are actually closer to English than Arabic: Persian is an Indo-European language, same as English, while Arabic is a Semitic language.
minus-squareQuestionMark@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·edit-22 hours agoIt’s Persian. I’ve noticed a lot of gendered words seemingly have roots in Arabic: the words for paternal uncle, paternal aunt, maternal aunt, and maternal uncle for example. I guess the neutrality is something that survived of our ancient culture. The history (of Persia and the language) is deeply fascinating, but also confusing, and at times you’ll come across a lot of contradictions. There are so many lies and different perspectives. I regret my ignorance when it comes to this topic.
minus-squarenightlily@leminal.spacelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·13 hours agoSo poor they held to sell off cases as well.
minus-squareFatVegan@leminal.spacelinkfedilinkarrow-up2arrow-down1·1 day agoAnd they still have trouble learning it.
minus-squareNico198X@europe.publinkfedilinkarrow-up4·1 day agobullpies! i don’t like English, but those are things it does right! who the hell needs TWELVE definite articles?!
English is such a poor language that they only have the article The and nouns without genders.
Seethe and cope.
My native language doesn’t have any articles and there is no distinction between he and she.
Japanese?
Nope. It’s Persian (also known as Farsi, or Parsi).
Persian’s roots are actually closer to English than Arabic: Persian is an Indo-European language, same as English, while Arabic is a Semitic language.
How progressive.
May I ask what language that may be?
It’s Persian.
I’ve noticed a lot of gendered words seemingly have roots in Arabic: the words for paternal uncle, paternal aunt, maternal aunt, and maternal uncle for example. I guess the neutrality is something that survived of our ancient culture.
The history (of Persia and the language) is deeply fascinating, but also confusing, and at times you’ll come across a lot of contradictions. There are so many lies and different perspectives. I regret my ignorance when it comes to this topic.
So poor they held to sell off cases as well.
And they still have trouble learning it.
bullpies!
i don’t like English, but those are things it does right!
who the hell needs TWELVE definite articles?!
Speakers of enlightened languages?