Re: Optimum number of symbols

Christophe Grandsire wrote:
> Sorry to have gender in our language. But we're a majority here (I mean that
> most languages in the world have gender or class systems, while only a minority
> doesn't have them, and even then may have kept some remnants of them :)) ).
Indeed, English can be argued to have gender, in the form of mass vs.
count nouns, and the subdivision of count nouns into male, female, and
neuter.  It's not as thoroughly engrained in our language, but try
coming up with an explanation of why you say "too much corn" but "too
many peas" :-)  And by some definitions of "gender", male female and
neuter are still genders in English, it's just that they only show up in
the pronouns.

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