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dragonfucker@lemmy.nz 6 days agoDrag uses person-independent pronouns, which are conjugated and inflected in all grammatical persons. When drag uses drag’s pronouns, they’re first person. And to answer your question, drag has a pet dragon. We’re engaged to be married. It’s @HonouraryDragon@lemmy.nz
LMagicalus@discuss.tchncs.de 6 days ago
Oh, cool! And gotcha on the first person thing, sorry!
dragonfucker@lemmy.nz 6 days ago
Thanks. A lot of people lived through the “singular they” controversy, where conjugation was a big issue, yet they never fully understood the conclusion that conjugation in English depends on the pronoun, not on the inflection. Latin has different rules, of course, but we’re not speaking Latin. A lot of people are still upset about that fact after all these centuries. They’re usually the kind of people who think the Romans were the good guys, and the Goths who spoke a precursor to English were evil. Fun fact: Adolf Hitler hated Gothic script. He called it “Jewish letters”. It’s funny how Germany changed sides over the whole issue. One minute Germany is sacking Rome, and the next they’re the home of the Holy Roman Empire. The whole “Third Reich” thing was an attempt at claiming a lineage descended from Rome. And of course England and the US spent a long time establishing themselves as the inheritors of Rome too. That’s probably why there’s so many old people who want English to be Latin.
VanillerGoriller@sh.itjust.works 6 days ago
Third reich was not calling back to Rome but to the German empire that was dissolved after WWI
dragonfucker@lemmy.nz 6 days ago
What does the “First Reich” refer to?