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Re:The capital sharp S in now part of the official German or... by geff82 on Monday July 03, 2017 @06:49PM (#14692037)
@TulliusCicero: the only true genderless language is Persian. There is no he, she, it even. There is no way to hear if someone is man or woman without a precise context or asking "Man or Women?", which I often hear Iranians ask in Conversations.
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Re:The capital sharp S in now part of the official German or... by tom_mellior on Monday July 03, 2017 @07:19PM (#14692181)
> the only true genderless language is Persian.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_languages_by_type_of_g... begs to differ. There are whole language families without genders.

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Re:The capital sharp S in now part of the official German or... by VikingIV on Monday July 03, 2017 @08:15PM (#14692498)
There certainly are. To their point, quite a few of the languages on that list with no grammatical gender are of a similar ancestor language as Persian.
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Re:The capital sharp S in now part of the official German or... by thaumasiotes on Tuesday July 04, 2017 @12:34AM (#14693567)
English, German, French, etc are also "of a similar ancestor language as Persian".
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Re:The capital sharp S in now part of the official German or... by VikingIV on Monday July 03, 2017 @08:11PM (#14692476)
Interestingly, it's an easy language & script to learn. In terms of what someone referred to as a "good global language" for universal ease of learning, it provides a great base.
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