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vitklim
· 5 years ago
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Definitely not language, given how you are too dumb to understand it
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guest_
· 5 years ago
Ok. First to get it out there, daughtHER. HEReditary, HERald, HERo, HERbal, HERe, HERculean, HERitage, cinematograpHER, biograpHER, catcHER, seismograpHER, togetHER, decipHER, tougHER... I could keep going all day. There’s a lot more words just for “her” even without including any other roots.
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guest_
· 5 years ago
But- it’s complicated and I won’t do the whole thing- English is a mismash of languages and roots and loan words and sounds. The “his” in many words like history can come from Ancient Greek, Latin, etc and isn’t based in gender as those languages didn’t use “his” as a gender word. The gender words in English come from many places too, but modifications of German and French are sources for some of the common ones. In reality it’s more complex because German and French also borrow from Latin and Ancient Greek- so sorting it all out is tricky, and we can still argue that these roots were chosen with some type of gender bias but then we get into a deep dive of what words and sounds were invented first and a whole mess. But in short- plenty of words contain common roots because those are all... common. In most cases the gender is derived from the root and not the other way around, or the two evolved parallel.
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