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sp3tr4l@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

You could have looked at drag’s post history and seen posts about drag’s gender. You decided to reinvent the wheel.

Thats what I did Drag, that’s what I said I did.

I did linguistic analysis by reading your profile and post/comment history.

I am queer myself, and I am not talking about your gender, I am talking about your communication style.

I have known tons of queer, gay, lesbian, bi, trans, etc people and you are the only person I’ve ever met that uses ‘person independent pronouns.’

If your username is Dragon Rider, 99% of people will view your use of Drag or drag as a nickname, the same way John is often a shortened version of Johnathan.

Drag isn’t drag’s nickname.

99.9% of people, who use standard English grammatical rules, including myself, a former copywriter for a university newspaper, automatically interperet “drag’s” in this sentence as you referring to yourself in the third person.

99.9% of people would say “Drag isn’t my nickname.”

I know that you like to describe it as person independent pronouns, but that is a confusing, foreign concept to 99.9% of English speakers who are not part of a very small part of the already comparitively small queer community.

If I were to go around saying “That is not what spec said, spec claimed that blah blah blah…”, never using standard first person pronouns…

I would encounter exactly the same confusion, people would think I was referring to myself in the third person, by a nickname.

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