COLOURS ARE FUCKING COLOURS. WHAT THE FUCK ARE YOU DOING, FRANCE?!

  • Treczoks@lemmy.world
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    12 days ago

    Big complaints from someone with a language where the connection between the written text and its pronunciation can only be described as rather weak.

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      11 days ago

      English is a wreck of three other languages but at least we escaped gendered nouns and adjectives. That’s got to be the most pointless language feature of all time.

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          10 days ago

          Not really, even that has almost completely fallen out of use. Everything except people and anthropomorphized animals like pets are ‘it’; nobody’s going around calling ships and newspapers ‘she’ anymore except people holding on to extremely quaint historical oddity.