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Fever_Discordia: Incidentally I once heard that the reason we don't give things genders in English goes back to when the Vikings controlled the north of England and Saxons controlled the south and they developed a pidgin language to communicate so, yeah, I blame the Danes!
Blame them? Thank the Danes, I hope you mean! Yours is one of the few languages blessedly free of the abomination that is grammatical genders. They complicate things immensely, and add absolutely no semantic content to the language.

Apart from that, Danish has two genders, just so you know. On the other hand, they are quite unusual. There is common gender (both male and female) and no gender (neither male nor female). So I don't think we specifically are to "blame" for the lack of genders in English (unless that was purely a function of the "common language" thing). On the other hand, the Vikings did not speak modern Danish, but rather old Norse. I believe the closest thing to it in modern terms is Icelandic, but I don't know if that has genders or not.
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gunsynd: Afraid my German isn't that crash hot:-)
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BreOl72: Basically it says whether "deutsch" or "Deutsch" is used, depends on how you use it.

As an adjective (=lower case), or as a nominal adjective (=upper case).

We have a saying here in Germany:

"Deutsches Sprach', schweres Sprach' ", which is kinda mocked way of saying "German language is difficult language".

Yes - we are actually aware of that. ;o)
Yes I actually learnt something new today about Languages.
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BreOl72: Basically it says whether "deutsch" or "Deutsch" is used, depends on how you use it.

As an adjective (=lower case), or as a nominal adjective (=upper case).

We have a saying here in Germany:

"Deutsches Sprach', schweres Sprach' ", which is kinda mocked way of saying "German language is difficult language".

Yes - we are actually aware of that. ;o)
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gunsynd: Yes I actually learnt something new today about Languages.
:O
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gunsynd: Yes I actually learnt something new today about Languages.
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realkman666: :O
You'll have to translate (:O) for me...
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realkman666: :O
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gunsynd: You'll have to translate (:O) for me...
*riled-up because of capitalization*
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gunsynd: You'll have to translate (:O) for me...
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realkman666: *riled-up because of capitalization*
Ok..
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Klumpen0815: Are bullroarers still en vogue in down under?
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tinyE: Look at the big brains on you, I had to Google "bullroarers". :D
I'm surprised you know how to use Google.