Comment on Middle-schoolers after pronouns are successfully banned once and for all (A conservative utopia)
FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 3 months agoYou don’t get to change your adverbs, participles, adjectives, predicates, etc.
Says who? You? Are you the arbiter of language?
I’ll call you Mrs. I’ll call you Mr. But the rest, nuh uh.
Really? Not even Ms.? Because I imagine a lot of younger women would feel pretty insulted by you calling them Mrs.
kitnaht@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Oh you. Of course that would incluse Ms. :D
FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Why “of course?” Again, are you the arbiter of language?
kitnaht@lemmy.world 3 months ago
I simply follow the rules, I don’t attempt to change them and force everyone else to follow mine.
FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 3 months ago
What rules? Where do these rules come from? Who codified them? Can you please show me where they are laid out?