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Guy labeled “languages where everything is gendered” hovers menacingly, while a different guy labeled “non-binary people” runs away
Guy labeled “languages where everything is gendered” hovers menacingly, while a different guy labeled “non-binary people” runs away
And people who speak Swahili (which has 18 noun classes/genders) might complain that with only 2 genders, there are many examples where its still ambiguous.
There’s an infinite amount of extra info you can append onto any part of a language, you have to make a cutoff somewhere. I’m just glad English didn’t go with a feature that made me want to kill myself in most conversations when I was learning Spanish.