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taneq
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The Awful German Language (1880)
> I've never understood the need for noun genders and I scratch my head at a society that makes its members memorize such useless information.
A lot of redundancy in human languages seems to be related to disambiguation and error correction.
analog31
on Oct 6, 2018
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Indeed, I once read an article about the Iliad, in which it claimed that the combination of the rhythm and other poetic features made it harder to screw up when reciting from memory.
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A lot of redundancy in human languages seems to be related to disambiguation and error correction.