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Mark Twain was right
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Cthulhu
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07 December 2012 at 2:55pm | IP Logged

taqseem wrote:

you call it satire, i call it derision.
most of the European languages do have gender systems and many of them preserved cases.
if you find Twain's opus amusing you may just as well join the Flat Earth Society that
maintains that the Earth is flat and make fun of those who believe that it is a spheroid.

MixedUpCody wrote:

Is this comment an ode to trolling, or does satire legitimately confuse you?

I believe that would be a 'yes'.
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MixedUpCody
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Message 34 of 35

07 December 2012 at 9:24pm | IP Logged

Cthulhu,

You are correct.
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zooplah
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16 December 2012 at 9:30pm | IP Logged

beano wrote:

I don't think German is that bad. Sure, it has gender but so do most other European languages.

As far as I'm concerned, the hardest part of German nouns is not gender, but remembering the plural form.

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