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• hdnsmbt@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  “doesn’t” and “uses” are third person.

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  • dragonfucker@lemmy.nz ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Conjugation depends on the individual pronoun, not on the grammatical structure. English isn’t Latin. A lot of people complained about singular they/them because of the conjugation, but we moved past that misunderstanding a decade ago.

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    • hdnsmbt@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      If conjugation depends on the individual pronoun, the pronoun you used was third person since that’s the conjugation you used. They/them is also third person and singular and plural are conjugated the same, so the comparison doesn’t apply.

      To be clear, please use any and all pronouns you’re comfortable with. But don’t write a third person sentence and insist it’s first person.

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      • dragonfucker@lemmy.nz ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Conjugation doesn’t depend on the grammatical structure. Not alone, and not via the pronoun. Drag will prove it: they/them and you/you use the same conjugation, but are in different persons. You don’t think “they” is a second person pronoun, do you?

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• TrickDacy@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  This is an incredibly stupid social experiment

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  • VerticaGG@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Nah, but your urge to police it is interesting

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    • frayedpickles@lemmy.cafe ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Are they policing it? I haven’t seen a single unarmed person get shot yet.

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      • VerticaGG@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Haha but also yes still cop-in-head behaviour

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• brbposting@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Question 4 drag

  If drag had access to BoringNormie Pills, would drag take them?

  (Assume they would permanently or temporarily reset identity to a highly common one)

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