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CoolMatt@lemmy.ca ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

• Bassman1805@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  It’s a context thing.

  Ohio = a bad place to be. Honestly, as a non-Ohio Midwesterner, I say this should be allowed.

  Chat = like addressing the twitch chat. “Chat, are we doomed?” It’s actually pretty interesting from a linguistics perspective because it’s arguably a fourth person pronoun. But in-class I can see it getting out of hand.

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  • barsoap@lemm.ee ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    because it’s arguably a fourth person pronoun.

    Even if you consider it a pronoun, which you’d then also have to do with “class” in “Class, please open the book to page 14”, it’s still second person plural.

    Fourth person would be “One does not simply walk into Mordor”. “One does not address the fourth person”. I guess people got it mixed up with the 4th wall that’s why the confusion exists.

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    • CoolMatt@lemmy.ca ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      I get 1st, 2nd, and 3rd person, but 4th person is a new concept to me and I’m trying tl wrap my head around it given your examples. This is intersting

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      • barsoap@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        One refers to an indefinite and generic group, and it’s not a “they/them” in the sense that one does not exclude oneself from that group (it’s generic, after all). I guess universal quantification is close in meaning.

        It’s a thing specific to English, or I guess Indo-European languages in general. All languages have first, second, and third person anything beyond that is non-standard. E.g. Finnish has a 0th person, “Infer who is meant from context”.

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  • CoolMatt@lemmy.ca ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I can see both words being annoying the the teacher at most but inappropriate ?

    …🤷🏼

    If it bothers the teacher THAT MUCH, they picked the wrong profession

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  • Maiq@lemy.lol ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Ohayo, japanese greeting.

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• suicidaleggroll@lemm.ee ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  No names? On what? People just go around saying “no names”?

  It says “no mames”. I’m not sure what on earth that means, but I suspect it isn’t a typo (writeo?)

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  • Maiq@lemy.lol ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    No mames guey, spanish loose translation of don’t bullshit me bro.

    Dont suck it. Dude.

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  • CoolMatt@lemmy.ca ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Omg I totally misread it. Another commenter explained that it’s spanish for something like don’t BS me

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