This is why everything is a little shit to me. I’m just getting all of them in one combined s/h/it word.
Contain them
Submitted 10 months ago by Stamets@lemmy.dbzer0.com to memes@sopuli.xyz
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burntbacon@discuss.tchncs.de 10 months ago
fartographer@lemmy.world 10 months ago
You eat pieces of shit for breakfast?
Haaveilija@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I would guess that yes, that’s (h) it
AtariDump@lemmy.world 10 months ago
……….No.
burntbacon@discuss.tchncs.de 10 months ago
Gotta reuse fiber to hit the daily recommended.
lbfgs@programming.dev 10 months ago
Turkish has no gender specific pronouns so this is every Turkish speaker I guess
yermaw@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
Not even for people? I dont know why that sounds so strange but it does.
lbfgs@programming.dev 10 months ago
There is only one third person singular pronoun (“O”) used for people (regardless of gender) and objects alike.
GraniteM@lemmy.world 10 months ago
bystander@lemmy.ca 10 months ago
In Chinese, verbally the world for he, she, and it are all the same pronunciation. It is only differentiated in writing.
stray@pawb.social 10 months ago
The written form was neutral until Western influence inspired the creation of a female version, replacing the first radical “person” with “woman”.
DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
I think some Chinese forums use “TA” (as in the 2 English letters) to be gender neutral
Rubanski@discuss.tchncs.de 10 months ago
Don’t forget the word 祂 for divine beings as the 4th
WorldsDumbestMan@lemmy.today 10 months ago
Going to randomly call people 祂 to fuck with them.
kersploosh@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
“It puts the lotion on it’s skin…”
Nima@leminal.space 10 months ago
I never get mad at “it” because it gives me flashbacks to Shale from Dragon Age Origins and I absolutely love her. she’s amazing .
bizzle@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Using “it” to refer to human beings feels super disrespectful to me. Dehumanizing much? 1992 called they want their attitudes about trans people back. Obviously if someone told me they prefer “it” pronouns I’d use them but I would feel gross about it.
brown567@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
Can’t be dehumanizing if you use the for all humans XD
Kolanaki@pawb.social 10 months ago
I don’t wanna be human, anyway. Dehumanize me. Dogicize me instead.
Dasus@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Don’t learn Finnish I guess.
No gendered pronouns and we honestly use “it” (se) as a pronoun. No, I would never use it in English unless I meant to purposefully dehumanise someone, but in Finnish it’s just the normal colloquial version of a personal pronoun, whereas “hän” is a 3rd person pronoun that’s more formal, (but also non-gendered) . Pets usually get to be referred to as “hän” with the more formal personal pronoun, weirdly enough.
Korhaka@sopuli.xyz 10 months ago
I can understand using more respectful language for pets than people.
JesusChristLover420@lemmy.sdf.org 10 months ago
Why would you feel gross respecting a trans person’s preferred pronouns? If a trans person wants to be thought of as an object, would you genuinely think of it as an object, or would you think of it as a person but still call it by its preferred pronouns? Because the second option would cause cognitive dissonance and might be the reason you’d feel gross.
Lumisal@lemmy.world 10 months ago
You wouldn’t like how people in Finland speak then 😅
(We have hän for s/he but almost everyone just uses se {it} in spoken language)
Itdidnttrickledown@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Don’t read Lois McMaster Bujolds “Vorkosigan Saga” On of the bio engineered races preferred “it” when being gendered.
CPMSP@midwest.social 10 months ago
Oh holy fuck I’m rolling!
How have I not seen this image of Radcliffe before? He looks absolutely deranged!
bear@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 months ago
The back story is that he was elbowed in the face on the way to the car, and probably had stage makeup on.
https://chatterbusy.removed/2013/07/daniel-radcliffe-appears-exhausted-with.html?m=1
CPMSP@midwest.social 10 months ago
Thanks for the context!
ordnance_qf_17_pounder@reddthat.com 10 months ago
Hey kid… wanna buy some drugs?
floquant@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 months ago
I’ve run into this a while ago but I’m not sure what to make of it. aria.dog/barks/on-being-a-thing/
Agent641@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Holy shit… You can have domains that end in .dog?
pieland@piefed.social 10 months ago
and .pizza, .gay
there are lots of fun ones
borari@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 months ago
You can have domains that end in even more stuff if you switch to an alternative dns root like opennic.org.
stray@pawb.social 10 months ago
“It” is personally my favorite neutral pronoun, but it has so much cultural baggage attached to it that it doesn’t feel like a viable option. Why does a squirrel or a ficus or a robot get to be called “it” by default, but not a person? It isn’t fair.
Venat0r@lemmy.world 10 months ago
it’s generally used to describe non-sentient things…
Also, using only it gets confusing when trying to determine what “it” refers to in a given sentence…
JesusChristLover420@lemmy.sdf.org 10 months ago
It’s your choice. Do what you want. Damn the haters to sheol.
JesusChristLover420@lemmy.sdf.org 10 months ago
Based based based based based
…Waow
yogurtwrong@lemmy.world 10 months ago
What a tasteful website design
Jumi@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I have friends who use it. It feels kind of weird and wrong for me as if I’m objectiving them but if that’s what they want it’s what they get.
gerryflap@feddit.nl 10 months ago
Yeah I’d be quite uncomfortable with calling anyone “it”. I’ll gladly use they/them, I’d be down to learn some neopronouns, but calling someone “it” is something I’d rather avoid. Even if someone likes “it” pronouns, I’d still feel incredibly weird doing so in public. Calling people an “it” is often done here to mock androgynous people. It feels dehumanizing. If I were to do so in public, it would mean they people around me (who don’t know the other person’s preference) would probably assume I’m doing so to mock them.
AlolanYoda@mander.xyz 10 months ago
On the other hand, when I was learning English this was the weirdest thing to me. What do you mean you have a gender neutral pronoun and it’s not acceptable to use it to refer to someone we don’t know the gender of?
Jumi@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I admit I use “they” when they’re not around and luckily it rarely happens that I need to use their pronouns when I’m out with them.
GreenKnight23@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I have friends who use “it”. It feels kind of weird and wrong for me as if I’m objectifying it but if that’s what it wants it’s what it gets.
ftfy
Jumi@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Great job, what would I ever do without you?
Event_Horizon@lemmy.world 10 months ago
To me “it” dehumanises someone doen to an object.
Draegur@lemmy.zip 10 months ago
I use ‘it’ to describe ME :3
WorldsDumbestMan@lemmy.today 10 months ago
I have “it” in my Discord description, along with cpt.
napkin2020@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
Korean, having to know the person’s age, social status, relationship and all just to call someone.
python@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Russian could have been such a woke language if Russia wasn’t such a right-wing shithole. It’s kind of elegant how you gender verbs when talking about yourself, because your conversation partner can just pick up on it and gender you accordingly.
Multiplexer@discuss.tchncs.de 10 months ago
No joke: in my native German dialect, women are grammatically neutral.
My then gf was completely shocked when visiting my birth region for the first time.
It still married me, though! :-)thatradomguy@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Ah yes, Dilbert scrabble scene.
YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today 10 months ago
I’m all for hating the Giants as a cowboys fan. But I’m curious what role it plays in this meme.
csolisr@hub.azkware.net 10 months ago
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Non-native English speaker here. I was appalled to learn that English conjugated for animacy, and could swear "it" was the gender-neutral pronoun because that's what was used in Pokemon for example. I'm also not a fan of toggling conjugations mid-sentence, so I prefer to construct sentences with the plural "they", the expression "that person", or even the singular "one(self)", whenever I canbeejboytyson@lemmy.world 10 months ago
It’s not. In academic writing the gender neutral is they/them.
csolisr@hub.azkware.net 10 months ago
Which is why I was appalled to learn it late in life that "it" was reserved exclusively to non-humans, for some reason that didn't exist in my native Spanish. The rest of my explanation would be better written on a longer blog-post of mine.
muusemuuse@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
You know what’s weird? I’ve caught myself saying “it” about people a few times passively lately and then correcting myself and wondering where the fuck that came from
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LadyMeow@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 months ago
I could be an it. A good little toy.
Honse@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 months ago
Average blahaj user
LadyMeow@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 months ago
:3
30p87@feddit.org 10 months ago
“A toy? A Lego set??”, she asked excitedly, and wagged her tail.
OpenStars@piefed.social 10 months ago
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Squirrelanna@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 months ago
Based