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@szk4023 French and Spanish are sibling languages and are descended from Latin. While still no easy feat, it should be noted that learning is best done when ideas already have a natural connection between them. Most formal education treats each subject in isolation when there are many commonalities in the abstract. In my opinion, this treatment of knowledge does a disservice to the general public by creating schisms between ideas that would otherwise be connected. It prevents creativity. Take Hedy Lamar, for example. Very little to no formal training in the sciences, yet she was able to combine player piano technology with wireless communications to give us the frequency hopping encryption that is so ubiquitous today that nobody even stops to give thanks to a disgraced actress from the thirties for giving us secure wireless communications everywhere we are: WiFi, Bluetooth, Cellular. All of this was possible because she wasn’t constrained by formal “education.” She was free to let ideas mingle in her mind unlike somebody who constrains themselves within the confines of their expertise. The mind is amazing. Just think, a baby learns to see color within two months after birth. The brain naturally develops millions of simple languages to help describe the reality outside and to mold it to the simulations ran in our minds. People never stop to think about how “color” is just a symbolic language the visual cortex “speaks” to the prefrontal cortex to describe the electromagnetic ripples that tingle the photoreceptors in the retina. Light is the physical reality, and color is the language created to describe it. Want a good exercise to demonstrate this? Try describing “blue” to somebody that has been blind their whole life. It’s impossible. Their brains never developed the language of color, so they have no way of translating your words into an experience they’ve never had.
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6:50 Genders for objects that don’t have distinguishing traits, like males and females do, don’t require gendered distinctions. Humans, on the other hand, do have quite important distinctions. It’s a false equivalence to say inanimate objects are the same as humans that are quite drastically genetically different. Language’s sole purpose is to transmit an idea from one location to another by encoding the idea into a physical pattern that is decided at the destination. This process only works if the source and the destination agree to the terms used. This means language has been around for as long as a living organisms have been able to present simple ideas to other living organisms. This evolved to the point the neurons in your brain encode meaning into patterns of electrochemical reactions from one neuron to the next. The interactions created by a particular wavelength of light impinging on the photoreceptors in the retina trigger a cascading pattern of electrochemical reactions that culminate in the prefrontal cortex such that particular patterns are understood as various “colors.” Light is the physical experience, and color is the symbolic language that describes it. So, transmitting ideas is the sole purpose of language, and any word that doesn’t convey novel information with respect to the words around it, it is superfluous and a waste of resources. Conversely, words can be lacking in information making communication “blurry”. Gendered pronouns to describe one of two, or more, people that have a distinguishing characteristic, such as their sex, would offer value by imbedding information about their sex in a monosyllabic pronoun: his/her towel…
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@weirdairportdude7215 Good point. There’s no value in understanding another person’s sex. Good luck with that. I’m half Filipino (not Filipina) as well. So I’m not sure which main dialect is genderless, but there is plenty of Spanish influence in some of it.
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We also call “W”s “double U” instead of “double V”, unlike the Romance Languages that call it like they see it. 😂
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