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Re:To the brain, reading computer code is not the same as re... by dclowd9901 on Wednesday December 16, 2020 @04:22AM (#25440539)
I’ve found that reapproaching language when things don’t make sense to be very valuable.

Gender in German, for instance. It seems to be completely arbitrary save for one detail: whichever “sounds” best. I compare this to using “a/an” in English (albeit the rules in English are somewhat more “strict” in this regard.)

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Re:To the brain, reading computer code is not the same as re... by mejutoco on Wednesday December 16, 2020 @12:08PM (#25445043)
There a re a few heuristics for German that are very useful. I had this problem myself and researched it deeply in this article (full disclosure: own website) https://mejuto.co/statistical-grammar-guessing-a-german-noun...
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