
Conlangery #27: Irregularity
Conlangery Podcast
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The Differences Between Natural and Gramatical Gender
In Spanish, most nouns referring to humans can agree with the actual refer you're referring to. In German and ancient Greek, diminutives are grammatically neuter. Mark Twain famously made fun of the fact that a young woman, Machin, in German isn't it? Yes, that's Machin, really?
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