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Almost any time someone tries to make a point about a culture based on their language, ignore them. Languages, for the most part, evolve on their own, independent of cultural considerations. For example, in Spanish, the word for house (casa) is female, just like (almost?) all nouns in Spanish are gendered. This does not mean that gender plays a stronger role in Spanish speaking cultures than in cultures that speak a less gendered language, it is simply the way the language evolved.

It is worth pointing out that English also lets you omit the subject in some circumstances, namly commands. For example, we consider "clear your room" to be a complete sentence, despite the fact that it omits the subject, "you".

parent gizmo686 10 years ago

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