The "u" in non-american english

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zexen_lowe said:

Final-Fan said:
I think the complaint about having various genders for nouns with no apparent rhyme or reason (see c03n3nj0's example) is that learning it is complete brute force memorization. And complete nonsense from the perspective of an English speaker like me.

Maybe it's not a big deal if you're used to it, but for me it's like "the sun is male? WTF."

Well, for me it makes no sense when I study languages like English or Japanese that they don't have genders, it's like something's missing, if that makes you feel even weirder. I mean, I have deeply engraved in my brain that in Spanish PCs are female, telephones are male, chairs are female and books are male. It's only logical

 

dtewi said:
You know what language is difficult? Latin.

Oh. My. God.

There are like 130 (!?) different forms of one verb, 12 different forms of ONE noun, a handful of exceptions, and too many different conjugations and noun declensions (a declension being all the different forms of one noun).

Ugh...

Nuuuuu. Latin is awesome, even though I know I'll never use it I'm very glad of having learned it, it opens your mind a lot. And it's not that difficult, of course, I knew beforehand Spanish (therefore I'm used to a hundred differently conjugated tenses) and German (therefore I knew what cases like accusative and dative were)

 

For I'm picky, just a note on this:

"in Spanish PCs are female".

This is only true in Latin American Castilian, not in Spanish Castilian.