tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8419942499831288024.post2548686315530520621..comments2023-05-25T01:46:53.428-07:00Comments on I heart Zurich: First gloomy eveningTwelfthknithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06793069163403584688noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8419942499831288024.post-34401968614393919302008-03-15T07:59:00.000-07:002008-03-15T07:59:00.000-07:00Does German, then, have neuter gendered nouns, as ...Does German, then, have neuter gendered nouns, as well as masculine / feminine? If so, that'd be the first <I>logical</I> thing about a language that I've heard, and would make me want to learn it! I've always maintained that only having the two genders with no option for neuter ... has always bothered me about the Latin languages.David T. Macknethttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03074123750929335716noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8419942499831288024.post-73531156802028656902008-03-14T13:02:00.000-07:002008-03-14T13:02:00.000-07:00I suspect if I hadn't been learning Gaelic that I ...I suspect if I hadn't been learning Gaelic that I would be an unhappy bunny. As it is, I wrestled a lot with the differences between that and English. For example, Gaelic has no verb 'to have', there is no 'yes' and 'no' but positive and negative responses which are different for each verb and for each tense. AND they have 'strange' word orders too :0)<BR/>IndiaTwelfthknithttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06793069163403584688noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8419942499831288024.post-17320459438545362102008-03-14T12:17:00.000-07:002008-03-14T12:17:00.000-07:00It wasn't so much the gender that bothered me when...It wasn't so much the gender that bothered me when I tried to learn German, but the word order. Never made any sense. Same with Latin. French, on the other hand, was ok.Spindlers2https://www.blogger.com/profile/18391437211767303805noreply@blogger.com