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[–] darcy@sh.itjust.works 31 points 2 years ago (1 children)

proverbs 🥶🥶🥶

[–] Lepsea@sh.itjust.works 18 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Is the $70/month worth the price for the "pro" version? Or should i just pirate it?

[–] darcy@sh.itjust.works 13 points 2 years ago (1 children)

pirate it. but be careful using cracked phrases! it could be actually an idiom 😱

[–] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

Bart Simpson: YOU'RE an idiom!

[+] ghariksforge@lemmy.world 20 points 2 years ago (2 children)

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[–] DAKTA_NZ@lemmy.world 9 points 2 years ago (1 children)

You are a straightforward and practical people

[–] shiftymccool@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years ago (2 children)

This is the way all language should be. Gendered words of any kind serve absolutely no purpose

[–] Pyrozo007@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I couldn't disagree more, many people may not fit into genders, but most people do and simply knowing whether someone is a man or a woman is very useful. Gendered nouns though, like in French, Spanish, Italian etc. serve no purpose but do encode redundancy into the language which can be very valuable for speaking in loud places

[–] shiftymccool@lemmy.world 12 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Other languages get around just fine without gendered pronouns. I bet there are other languages that feel like English is missing valuable concepts as well (not necessarily gender-related) , but we don't miss them since we never had them.

[–] Pyrozo007@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I didn't say they didn't, simply that the idea that "Gendered words serve no purpose" is untrue, they are very useful.

[–] Onionizer@geddit.social 2 points 2 years ago

They have their use, but I'd say in most sentences the gender doesn't matter at all.

"She went to the grocery store.": Here the gender of that person is as important as any other attribute like the color of their shoes.

Imagine we have pronouns based on shoe color, let's say "de" for someone wearing white shoes. "De went to the grocery store."

And now someone proposes we could ged rid of that pronoun and you say "knowing what shoe color people wear is very useful though!"

[+] ghariksforge@lemmy.world 8 points 2 years ago (4 children)

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[–] jpeps@lemmy.world 15 points 2 years ago

It should be unimportant, but some people kick up such a fuss about having to learn new things or changing what they claim is 'natural' that it is important to a lot of people. Gender is both a social construct, and a very real thing that does warrant discussion.

[–] whenigrowup356@lemmy.world 11 points 2 years ago (1 children)

The fight over pronouns is just the first step in "othering" trans people. It helps to reinforce the idea that they're strange, not like you, not traditional, not natural.

The next steps are to deny healthcare, access to equal treatment from discrimination, things like that. There are leaders in the USA making statements that transgenderism should be "eradicated."

If you aren't dealing with shit like this in your area, I'm genuinely happy for you and I hope this never comes near you. But for lots of people, it's quite a bit more serious than a first world problem.

[+] ghariksforge@lemmy.world -2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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[–] whenigrowup356@lemmy.world 13 points 2 years ago (1 children)

As I said, the pronoun conversation isn't really about pronouns. It's about tribalism and scapegoating.

How much time did you spend thinking about pronouns or trans people before gay and lesbian relationships began to be normalized and legalized in The West?

Trans people have a new target on their backs because most people don't know someone who is trans and thus don't understand them. They're a scapegoat for right-wing groups to organize and fight against because they lost the ability to be quite so open with their homophobia.

Trans people are, according to some studies, as high as 4 times as likely to be victims of sexual assault and 3.5 times as likely to commit suicide.

Again, this is serious. Trans lives matter, Period.

[–] Mighty@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

PREACH! trans people are being killed for existing. and this priviledged person is all like "dOn'T yOu hAvE rEaL pRoBlEmS?!"

[–] whenigrowup356@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

Thanks. Some people really don't get it so I try to communicate in good faith on this issue but damn does it feel like banging your head into a brick wall sometimes.

[–] Herbstzeitlose@feddit.de 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)

If it’s so silly and unimportant why do people bitch and moan about using the pronouns someone feels comfortable with?

[–] shiftymccool@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

I say nearly this same thing, which is probably similar to what every generation says about the next one. Wait until they "grow up" and find out what real problems are. Your pronoun won't mean much if you lose your job and have to figure out how to pay the mortgage and for groceries before your kids starve.

[–] spike@discuss.tchncs.de 14 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Isn't that Jayce from Magic The Gathering?

[–] swab148@lemmy.world 9 points 2 years ago

Least confused planeswalker

[–] toomanyjoints69@lemmygrad.ml 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Adverbs

[–] Cheems@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago

I use ad blockers

[–] Nerorero@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 2 years ago

Oh no, I'm declining!

[–] tourist@community.destinovate.com 4 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Are there languages that conjugate verbs differently based on he/she instead of just a general usted? That would be untoldly confusing.

[–] WaffleFriends@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Russian does in the past tense but I find it to be a really simple change

Example: He/She/It/They were reading

Он читал

Она читала

Они читали

[–] crypto@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Оно читало

[–] WaffleFriends@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

Dunno how I forgot about neuter lol

[–] excusablejuan@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

It is confusing when you learn it.

Spanish can be hard to learn when it comes to conjugations, but pronunciation of words is way easier than English.

While spanish doesnt have different conjugations for he/she it does for articles.

Masculine article: El clima (the weather)

Feminine article: La Escuela (the school)

[–] JizzmasterD@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 years ago

Cases…😳

[–] BugleFingers@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

I just had to stop munching on my bugles to check if you had 2 open blue. That was instinctual upon seeing Jace

[–] rarely@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Verbs shouldn't even be attempted.

[–] Onionizer@geddit.social 1 points 2 years ago

*Verbs shouldn't even

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