Why Arabic Is Terrific (2011)

Re:Why Arabic Is Terrific (2011) by dalbasal on Wednesday June 26, 2019 @04:02PM (#20288578)

Are there any semetic languages that don't have arbitrary gender rules? Correctly gendering numbers (depending on the gender of the noun being counted) in hebrew is hard for native speakers.

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Re:Why Arabic Is Terrific (2011) by 2rsf on Thursday June 27, 2019 @04:09AM (#20292562)

Most of it is not actually HARD, we simply became lazy

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Re:Why Arabic Is Terrific (2011) by dalbasal on Thursday June 27, 2019 @10:33AM (#20294718)

I'm a native speaker and I get it wrong all the time.

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