check in, incl. CAH notes (this textbook is gr9)

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 [TODO: lit search or ask linguistics.stackexchange for literature on what gender/plural/case/&c. distinctions are for? Is it just the collision/ambiuity reduction, or is there something else? Oh, or Anna T./Elena might know]
 
+https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/wqmmv6NraYv4Xoeyj/conversation-halters
+> anything that people are motivated to argue about is not arbitrary.  It is being controlled by invisible criteria of evaluation, it has connotations with consequences