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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> since English evolved from many of the Romance languages
Off-base — English is a West Germanic language like Dutch or Scots. Much of our vocabulary is Latinate, but in no way is English a Romance language.
Edit: misidentified English as North Germanic
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