Guide:Gender: Difference between revisions

There are many hypothesis on why languages have it and explinations. One such explination is that it gives an easy method to make new words from existing ones, example includes spanish "médico" for doctor, with the familiar -o at the end it's masculine, we can exchange it to form''médica'' to refer to a female doctor. The more probable reason for this assignment is to induce redudancy into the language. In normal speech redudancy is something to be avoided but in communication and information redudancy is a neccisery component to secure the transfer of information. Even computer information, such as QR-code and programming, includes redudancy, a good example of what happens is the [http://www.videogameconsolelibrary.com/pg90-jaguar_cd.htm#page=reviews Atari Jaguar CD] when the redudancy is not enough.

We humans live in a very noisy enviorment so there is a need to secure that information gets across properly and gender is one of many methods to do this by adding this redudancy. For example "''The red boy and girl''", is the boy the only one who is red or are both red? In english it is ambigious but with gender assignment it can be done so it only applies to one of them. Other more complicated examples include north american languages where the verb tells you everything about who is doing what and nouns able to float around and shift places but has no marking on their semantic roles in the sentence, the verb encodes all information of their gender or more animacy but gender works well here. So it can be used to free up word order.