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earnestinger06/16/20251 replyview on HN

Lot of languages assign gender to objects.

One should control for foreign language knowledge.


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seabird06/16/2025

A lot of languages assign nouns to a noun class. They are (usually) not ascribing a biological gender to an object. "Gender" is a horrendously bad name for the concept.

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