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[–] lurch@sh.itjust.works 10 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Of course they do. There is no actual rule to it. You just have to know. Often words ending in "er" are male, but not all of them. It's one of the reasons German is so difficult. Just avoid it. English is easy and efficient.

[–] eunieisthebus 12 points 2 months ago

Depends. There are advantages and disadvantages to having the whole 'Kasus, Numerus, Genus' stuff around. To put it simple, if it was so bad than why is it still around in so many languages?

From a scientific point of view, one of the advantages is that it introduces redundancies (e.g. when adjective and the corresponding noun have the same suffix) and differences between the different syntactical parts of a sentence. This makes it easier to understand what someone else is saying even if you misunderstood them.

For the same reason computers exchange messages not simply by exchanging ASCII code because a single bit flip would alter the messages meaning.

You also need to keep in mind that languages weren't designed to be easy to learn for non-native speakers. They have been developed by native-speakers simply using it.

Haha. If you just want to speak English, I think it is easier. But writing or reading aloud correct English, with all the bizarre nonsense its Germanic and Normannic history forced into it? It's a fucking nightmare.

Just an example: https://www.learnenglish.de/pronunciation/pronunciationpoem.html

And there are many, many more.