People who speak English as a second language: how confusing is it that nouns are not gendered?
People who speak English as a second language: how confusing is it that nouns are not gendered?
It's a rare example of English being simpler than other languages, so I'm curious if it's hard for a new speaker to keep the nouns straight without the extra clues.
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I find the lack of capitalisation to be worse honestly. A lot of sentences where it is not clear at first whether something is a noun or not
Capitalisation also makes skimming texts so much easier and faster since you can just jump from noun to noun until you find something relevant. I wish more languages would do it.
What do you mean by this?
In German one capitalizes all nouns, proper or not.
Exactly
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