I know. It's insane. Sometimes it does that with edits, too. :P

Gifted and talented, yes. There's a list of personality traits of a G/T child somewhere, but I don't know where it is.
Well, at least in German, the case of the article makes the case of the noun more obvious. There are times in Latin where two or more cases look exactly alike, but if there were an article (or a preposition), it'd be clear which it was supposed to be. As it is, I keep taking leaps in the dark and missing.