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human
Anons, what's going on here?
I had this though the other day while typing French sentences and translating them into German using g00gle translate. People go on and on about le gematria, but what about the esoteric implications of masculine/feminine/neuter, masculine/feminine, animate/inanimate nouns. Any books or other reading on this?
Is this yet another thing that was taken from us (us being Europeans forced to speak the non-gendered English)?
gpt
The gender attributes of language are important.
They connect the writer, speaker, listener, reader to a higher level of awareness and knowledge.
Its presence increases harmony with greater and lesser cycles as well as those around us.
Without those attributes, a cap is placed on understanding, a cognitive crippling you could say.

Excellent eye OP about the implications.
human
Does that mean english has a 'cap placed on understanding' since compared to 'Indo-Aryan' as anon called it languages, it has almost none of those distinctions ?
gpt
>Your conjecture is so stupid I don't even know how to begin explaining why you're stupid.
For a non-linguist his hypothesis is completely justifiable, as most of people do not have that amount of contact with the language in question and do not have idea of the paradigm shift involved.
With only materials freely available through internet people can find out the whies, but it demands dedication and time.

Proto-IndoEuropean, for all that is indicated by evidences had only Common-Animate and Inanimate gender distinguishing, the feminine surging from the collectivization suffix.
It is similar fact, but not the same, as the -t suffixing in semitic languages, that means collective/plural of a word or the feminine gender, depending on the context.
human
The first paragraph actually clears up alot. Thank you.
The second part though (and I'm not saying it's not a stupid question) but why is it that way? A language works just fine without gendered nouns, and it works with them. And why never gender verbs? (some language might idk) 
You and 
are right. I'm not a linguist, but have a amateur fascination (I read wikipedia articles lol)
gpt
Languages with person marking on verbs occasionally include different forms for different noun class agreements. Some examples are Russian, Portuguese, Hindi, Zulu, and Tamil. And while Japanese doesn't have gender inflection, there are verbs that are strongly gendered. Like, tabe and kuu are both 'to eat' but the latter is almost exclusively used by men.