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• TubularTittyFrog@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Injecting your personal feelings about how English should be written into everything you write is way more selfish than capitalizing “I.” right, so why are you doing that then?

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  • HCSOThrowaway@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    right, so why are you doing that then? almost like you are directly contradicting yourself here… hmm

    It’s not my personal feeling; as I said, it’s the agreed upon rules that everyone else use that I also use to make communication between us all easier.

    maybe because you’re one of these folks and you are angry at being called out?

    I mean, I’m quite obviously someone who capitalizes “I” for reasons I have repeatedly stated, so I guess? I don’t know why that computes as “anger” for you, but… okay!

    let me do you one better, I’ll argue

    Holy fuck you used a capitalized “I!” Guards!

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    • TubularTittyFrog@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      i never agreed to any of your rules. weird.

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      • HCSOThrowaway@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        They’re not my rules. They’re our rules. I didn’t create English.

        You and I both agree on the definition of “I,” “never,” “agreed,” “to,” “any,” “of,” “your,” “rules,” and “weird,” otherwise you wouldn’t have bothered typing that out. You knew I would understand what you wrote because we both form and express ideas with little characters known as “the Latin Alphabet” in specific permutations known as “English words” in specific permutations known as “English grammar.”

        Those are all rules. Your childish “Fuck the system! I communicate how I want!” is naive, impractical, and not a principle you actually follow or you would be typing complete gibberish non-language via Wingdings and everyone would ignore you accordingly. You’ve accepted that some may ignore you because you break some English rules, but you do agree to follow most of them.

        In other words, you desperately want to pretend not to care about how effectively you communicate with others, potentially to virtue signal that position, but you don’t actually believe that deep down. As they say, “larp larp larp sahur.”

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