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by fluffycat 2693 days ago
Programmers? Sure German language needs a nice round of refactoring. Remove all redundancies. It would be a huge changelist with shit ton of lines removed, and still all tests for meaning pass.
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Removing all redundancies would require everyone to speak and formulate perfectly. Otherwise the message is lost. A lot of misunderstanding would happen.

Redundance in language makes it easier, because it really is some kind of error protection.

Not necessarily in case of German, What exactly articles give to the meaning? What would it lose if they are removed or consolidated into a single article.