Yeah, I mean, I understand that, but at the same time we have the power to consciously modify it, that is exactly what the government did with the simplification… also there are movements in Spanish adopted by feminists called “lenguaje inclusivo” (invlusive language) where people are adding an -e for neutral gendered people and so on, if we could do that to all nouns it would be basically what I’m proposing, you can still use -o and -a for masculine and feminine if you need to.
I mean, I am a native Spanish speaker, pretty much fluent in English, intermediate in German and a beginner in Chinese, so yeah, I get used to, just saying it can be easier.
inclusive language is more meant to adress professions and how you adress a person.
the use of different genders is completely arbitrary and every language that has them took advantage of it in a few situations to reduce the needed lexicon
Yeah, but that is only because we want it to work only for that, we have the potential to use to eliminate gendered nouns; the system is the same. And yes, it is arbitrary, and I am a native Spanish speaker and I can assure you the possible advantages are not bigger than the advantages of a simplified Spanish, the homonyms can be identified from context anyway.
I’m sure there are reasons I don’t understand to keep the writing system the way it is. Maybe it’s a case of “it’s not easy but we understand it and we have good literacy rates… let’s keep it this way”.
Yeah, I mean, I understand that, but at the same time we have the power to consciously modify it, that is exactly what the government did with the simplification… also there are movements in Spanish adopted by feminists called “lenguaje inclusivo” (invlusive language) where people are adding an -e for neutral gendered people and so on, if we could do that to all nouns it would be basically what I’m proposing, you can still use -o and -a for masculine and feminine if you need to.
I mean, I am a native Spanish speaker, pretty much fluent in English, intermediate in German and a beginner in Chinese, so yeah, I get used to, just saying it can be easier.
inclusive language is more meant to adress professions and how you adress a person.
the use of different genders is completely arbitrary and every language that has them took advantage of it in a few situations to reduce the needed lexicon
Yeah, but that is only because we want it to work only for that, we have the potential to use to eliminate gendered nouns; the system is the same. And yes, it is arbitrary, and I am a native Spanish speaker and I can assure you the possible advantages are not bigger than the advantages of a simplified Spanish, the homonyms can be identified from context anyway.
I’m sure there are reasons I don’t understand to keep the writing system the way it is. Maybe it’s a case of “it’s not easy but we understand it and we have good literacy rates… let’s keep it this way”.
Yeah, I mean, this mostly affects non natives, since you don’t usually have a lot of trouble learning the spoken part of the language.