• Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world
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    13 hours ago

    The majority of grammar rules are arbitrary and unrelated to the expression of an idea. For example, does it really matter if you treat an inanimate object like a pencil as feminine or masculine? It’s an object. Yet in Spanish/French/etc., there are grammar rules that define every inanimate object as being either feminine or masculine.

    However, without a common grammar, it’s impossible to communicate accurately. For that use case, AI functions as a language translator.

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      13 hours ago

      yes, its very arbitrary, but these are sets of rules that you can use to structure your thoughts. language helps us reason. it doesnt matter that it is arbitrary. definitions in mathematics are very arbitrary, but they are a foundation we can lean on to reason about abstract ideas. Being arbitrary is not a testament of uselessness. Different languages, lead to different foundations for structuring ideas. But dominating at least one of those foundations can be very important cognitively.

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        12 hours ago

        Gendering an explicitly non gendered inanimate object helps structure your thoughts?

        I’d argue that following those grammar rules damages your thoughts.