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'Choose' rhymes with 'lose'? I mean c'mon, someone did that shit on purpose ๐Ÿ‘€

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[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Hey we may have our language rules pulled from 30 different other languages and applied seemingly at random, but at least we don't have to memorize the gender of every inanimate object in the world!

I've taken 5 years of German and self studied some Russian and Spanish, and goddamn that gendered noun shit is really, really hard for native English speakers.

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

Okay you got me there. Also for what it's worth, gendered nouns are hard even when you natively speak a language with gendered nouns. Source: Am an Arabic speaker and will Jihad anyone who says a chair is female.