So for an English speaker learning this grammatical gender,
it just makes not sense, right?
I mean, why is you know, [FOREIGN]?
Especially for these things that are not marked very well, and, and
there's a second wrinkle on that, which I've just indicated with [FOREIGN], is
that they're not, they don't always end in o and a, and those become quite difficult.
Right? Is it [FOREIGN]?
Well it's [FOREIGN].
I know that, but
a non-native speaker gets stuck because, you know, it could be [FOREIGN].
So which one it?
Then I lose my rules.
The old way is easy, I can track that.
But these irregulars that end in all kinds of letters, E, Z, T, R, P.
You know, all of these are quite different.
And it's not that they're completely irregular but they're semiregular.
Right they're not quite as consistent as the OA.