Middle-schoolers after pronouns are successfully banned once and for all (A conservative utopia)

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• metaStatic@kbin.earth ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  My and Me are pronouns you stupid fucking possum

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  • Beaver@lemmy.ca ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I’m not a possum

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    • badcommandorfilename@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Did you just assume my species?

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  • distantsounds@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Opossum, not possum.

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  • boatsnhos931@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Got damn possum I ain’t got no tree FIDDY

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• MechaGrima@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  do not refer to me

  …And that’s what we programmers call a memory leak!

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• istanbullu@lemmy.ml ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  My native language (Türkish) does not have grammatical gender. Gender in grammar is just silly and useless.

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  • rickyrigatoni@lemm.ee ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I need to know which inanimate objects I can fuck without it being gay, constantinoplelu.

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    • istanbullu@lemmy.ml ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      pretty sure it’s all gay.

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  • explodicle@sh.itjust.works ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    That’s part of why I just use They in English for everyone. Less having to learn people’s whatever; I don’t care. You’re cis male he? Don’t care, you’re a they now. More room left in brain. We can fix this shit right now.

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    • Emerald@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      You’re cis male he? Don’t care, you’re a they now.

      Now you’re back to not respecting peoples pronouns

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    • istanbullu@lemmy.ml ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      We do have a distinction between singular ‘they’ and plural ‘they’. It’s helpful.

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  • Wizard_Pope@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    No. Language needs as many possible structures and rules as well as millions of exceptions and oddities so it is really hard to learn.

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  • Agent641@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Based and ottoman-pilled

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  • botorfj@lemdro.id ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    average O enjoyer

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  • shiftymccool@programming.dev ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I can’t agree more

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• thesporkeffect@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Also, please do not observe me. Or make any sudden moves in my vicinity. I am feral and have anxiety

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  • FlyingSquid@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    This is like the chicken game, isn’t it?

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• the_crotch@sh.itjust.works ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I do not use pronouns, and I don’t think you or they should use them either.

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  • cooopsspace@infosec.pub ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I, you, they, them

    Based

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• AceFuzzLord@lemm.ee ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  AceFuzzLord can’t wait for the use of all pronouns to be banned and English papers won’t be legally allowed to use basic words such as “I”, “Me”, “You”, etcetera. That’ll teach the libs!

  /s

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  • Dasus@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    what, which, who, whom, whose, this, that, these, and those, everybody, either, none, and something,

    Amongothers. It’s ironic conservatives know so little grammar that they can’t even add “personal” to before “pronouns” to make it at least slightly more accurate, but no.

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• kitnaht@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  [deleted]

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  • Duamerthrax@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Culture War aside, that’s not how language works. You have as much understanding to the history of language as you have basic dignity to other human beings.

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  • NaibofTabr@infosec.pub ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Believe it or not, languages change over time. They grow and adapt to fit their context.

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  • WorkIsSlow@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Leave language alone motherfuckers not speaking in Old English. smh

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  • howrar@lemmy.ca ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Looks like you’re getting a lot of people riled up here.

    I’m curious about why you find it so objectionable for someone to choose their pronouns but are fine with name changes.

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    • kitnaht@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Because the rules of the English language are the same for everybody. You don’t just get to go around telling people they have to use a different ruleset for you or when they are around you.

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  • flerp@lemm.ee ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    But… you can change all of those things, adverbs, participles, adjectives, predicates, you can change all of them by changing your behaviour and characteristics… You can’t even get your own stupid arguments to be correct.

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    • kitnaht@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Oh look how smart you are by pointing out that YOU can change those things by acting differently; and the other thing I’m referring to is you forcing OTHERS to act differently.

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  • brbposting@sh.itjust.works ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    nuh uh.

    Newfangled terminology

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    Thoughts on prescribing use of the OG word only?

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    You don’t get to change your adverbs, participles, adjectives, predicates, etc.

    True, not in repressive societies. And look, I have limits, I’ll be hard pressed to refer to someone as squirrelkinlifragilisticexpialidocious every time. But you’d made a reasonable accommodation in polite company I figure?

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  • GBU_28@lemm.ee ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Bold take, here on Lemmy. Let’s see how it goes for them

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  • FlyingSquid@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    You 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.

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    • kitnaht@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Oh you. Of course that would incluse Ms. :D

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• wabafee@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  None ate the cabbages. None then went home full and happy.

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