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  1. orungano orungano

    Wowwwww TIL @zazamon really freaking hates Texans

    Sunday, 10-May-15 21:43:30 UTC from web
    1. awlxaĺan awlxaĺan

      @tiffany Or just speaks a language naturally that doesn't have gender.

      Sunday, 10-May-15 21:44:10 UTC from web
      1. Someone Probably Someone Probably

        @awolditzy My native language is Coptic where he she and it are all the same word.

        Sunday, 10-May-15 21:48:25 UTC from web
        1. awlxaĺan awlxaĺan

          @zazamon It is? Isn't Coptic a Semitic tongue?

          Sunday, 10-May-15 21:49:15 UTC from web
          1. Someone Probably Someone Probably

            @awolditzy It's actually not Semitic. Egyptian is actually a completely separate branch of the Afro-Asiatic family.

            That being said, Coptic does differentiate gender in the third person singular, anok, ntok and nto

            Sunday, 10-May-15 21:54:27 UTC from web
            1. awlxaĺan awlxaĺan

              @zazamon I got confused due to my reading some sort of article explaining its shared consonant-grouping 'root' words anomaly that Semitic languages have in bounds. Maybe that's all Afro-Asiatic languages.

              Sunday, 10-May-15 21:56:02 UTC from web
              1. Someone Probably Someone Probably

                @awolditzy To be fair, Coptic does share a decent bit with the Semitic languages, likely due to the strong Hebrew influences during the middle dynasties of Egypt and the Arabic influence towards the end.

                Sunday, 10-May-15 21:58:12 UTC from web
                1. awlxaĺan awlxaĺan

                  @zazamon Oh that might be it. Kind of like Ottoman Turkish became more Semitic like than Turkic like in means of vocabulary and some grammatical functions.

                  Sunday, 10-May-15 21:59:33 UTC from web