It was a bit confusing at first but I got used to it quickly, it's much simpler this way
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Eh, gendered nouns are just an old holdover. At least English (usually) uses words to improve specificity. For example, "Pick up my medicine" as opposed to "pick up medicine." It seems redundant to some until suddenly you need to specify after the fact.
The more precise the language the fewer chances of miscommunication. A perfect language would be precise and unambiguous without deliberate effort (as opposed to laziness, slang, shorthand, etc.) which is probably completely impossible to craft, much less about.
I disagree that being perfectly unambiguous is a feature of a "perfect" language.
Ambiguity creates holes for us to fill, and some people don't realize how good it feels to fill those holes.
Out of German and English, I always found German to be better suited for factual texts (scientific papers and essays, news textbooks, encyclopedias etc.) because it's less ambiguous and English for more creative writing (novels, poems, opinion pieces, speeches etc.) because there is more scope for the imagination and the ambiguity leaves more room for double entendres, puns and other fun stuff. There are advantages to both.
I think it's just that one point where you have to accept things like that exist. Sometimes gendering slips out of your mind, but a lot of people let it slide.
As someone trying to learn Spanish I wish there was no gendering in Spanish. It makes the language significantly harder to learn.
in my language nouns aren't gensered either so it was pretty easy
Not at all, we don't do gendered words. The fact that pronouns are gendered still baffles me.
It was weird in the very beginning, but it's good and I love it!
Absolutely worth getting used to, way less headaches
*way fewer headaches
(Sorry)
Not at all, it makes it simpler, in many cases you don't even need it or is even simpler to convey the gender in other ways
It's not, why would that even be a good thing? Get rid of adding identifies to objects like a 6yo.