I’m curious as to what the initial purpose of gendering every noun would be, since (from what I understand) it doesn’t really change the meaning of the sentence, just the form of certain words. Also, since English evolved from many of the ~~Romance~~ European languages that do have gendered nouns, why do we not use them in English?
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One theory is that English used to have genders, but was influenced by other languages where the genders for nouns didn’t match up so they fell out of use.
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