No dude it’s even worse. They constantly get the wrong person at first. Abuse the shit out of them. Then find evidence of their innocence and just apologize and leave it at that.

But they are the humanity. We are just the peasants.

Of course. But I don’t think that’s the “purpose” of it. It’s good to remember that languages don’t have anything purposeful about them at all. Any characteristic in a language has use, but no purpose.

Like living beings languages evolve, and mutate, and useful traits stay behind and spread and less useful ones are forgotten.

Gender might sometimes be useful in those situations, but I would be skeptical it’s the main reason it appeared and kept being used.

That only works if they have different genders. Which is often not the case in most gendered languages.

“Bob sacó su manzana de la caja y la dejó caer.”

Bob took his female apple out of his female box and let it (female) fall

Also from my experience growing and going to school in a gender language (not Spanish btw), grammar classes are way more intense and thorough than for something like English. Most people don’t really have grammar classes in English speaking countries, while I studied it until the last year of high school…

More complex grammar certainly makes it more difficult to learn, even for native speakers.

What’s convenient about it? I genuinely see no benefits, as a native speaker of a gendered language.

Lots of materialist reductionism in this thread. Funny that you guys consider yourselves super “scientifically minded” but your beliefs are purely faith-based and contradict what most actual researchers on the field think. You’ll be very hard pressed to find a scientist studying consciousness that believes it’s purely a mechanistic and chemical process fully localized on the brain.

Only people with the souls of warlocks get panic attacks or psychotic breaks when smoking weed.

Those of pure soul smoke without issues forever.

(people never saw the meme I guess)

New research says birds have grammar and you’re still talking like it’s the 20th century. Get on with the times! Many animals are practically identical to us in capability. We’re just better at some of the stuff we all can do.

I think we just have very different ideas of what makes a game a “completely different game”. It seems to you all remasters are completely different games, and I just wholeheartedly disagree.

So Skyrim on Switch is not the same game as Skyrim on PC…?

Or even more obviously, Oblivion Remastered on the PC vs. Oblivion on the Xbox 360.

They are but they aren’t, and it seems mostly pedantic to hammer on that.

Come on bro