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Am I German or Autistic?
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Re: Am I German or Autistic?
#232Earlier quoted context omitted.
As a student of German (80 on DuoLingo) I'm fascinated by the definite articles. If we're going to manage gender and case across nouns appearing in sentences, why not make them more distinct, please? We've got 'die' owning far too much real estate here, in my opinion.
> If we're going to manage gender and case across nouns appearing in sentences, why not make them more distinct, please? > We've got 'die' owning far too much real estate here, in my opinion. German has a relatively simple case inflection system, one that mostly applies to particles. Fully inflected languages often apply case and gender to the nouns and adjectives themselves, in many cases with overlap between cases…
Oh, don't drop a pfennig in me about the arbitrary genders.
I'm contending that enumerating the article variations should spare us the ambiguous overlaps.
Millions of Germans are all: "Deal with it".
Re: Am I German or Autistic?
#233Earlier quoted context omitted.
> If we're going to manage gender and case across nouns appearing in sentences, why not make them more distinct, please? > We've got 'die' owning far too much real estate here, in my opinion. German has a relatively simple case inflection system, one that mostly applies to particles. Fully inflected languages often apply case and gender to the nouns and adjectives themselves, in many cases with overlap between cases…
Oh, don't drop a pfennig in me about the arbitrary genders. I'm contending that enumerating the article variations should spare us the ambiguous overlaps. Millions of Germans are all: "Deal with it".
> Millions of Germans are all: "Deal with it".
Yeah because it makes perfect sense to them, just like it doesn't confuse us that the pronoun "them" in English can refer to either a singular non-gender-specified individual as a verb object or plural individuals of any genders (or even non persons) as objects.
That's three distinct meanings of "them" in standard English, and there are even more in dialectical speech.
Re: Am I German or Autistic?
#234I must say I expected a german question
Re: Am I German or Autistic?
#235It assumes you have an internal monologue which is a problem if like me you don’t.
Re: Am I German or Autistic?
#236Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yeah, we all know that. Could it be that you're German or autistic?
According to the test, I'm completely normal, are you perhaps the autistic one? Or is the test bullshit?
The test is supposed to be /fun/. But "completely normal" folks just don't get it, I suppose.