"It's so much trouble remembering modern pronou-"
"It's so much trouble remembering modern pronou-"
Alright so I've always thought the past was always shitty, but this. God damn am I proud of this. Some social things that were much more lax back then should have stayed that way.
Explanation: Latin looks and sounds cool, but it is a Hell Language with infinite declensions and conjugations and other minor grammatical nuances. You want to learn someone’s pronouns in Latin? Best get a paper and pad, it’ll take a while. Pronouns aren’t as important in Latin, though, as it’s a pro-drop language. Context usually fills in for pronouns.
Also, mandatory statement that ‘they/them’ is a perfectly good singular gender-neutral pronoun and I will die on this hill.
“Singular They” has been in use since at least Early Modern English.
My only comment is that at least you only have to learn it once (or, well, thrice), not for any given conversation.
He, she, or they works well enough for most circumstances. Do we really need to broaden it beyond that?
Once pronouns become unique and personalised instead of generic, you lose the advantages of having them in the first place, and may as well refer to everyone by name every time. It'd be less confusing, especially if you're re-using existing words as pronouns.
He, she, or they works well enough for most circumstances. Do we really need to broaden it beyond that?
I would say probably not. I expect (and hope, I suppose) that things will sort themselves out more or less that way. We live in a time of great reconsideration of gender norms, and it's not absurd to see experimentation in such a period. I use neopronouns (nounself style excluded) as a courtesy, because I understand it brings comfort to many who use them and it's not much trouble simply to do so, but they/them is what I hope we all eventually settle on as standard for NB gender identities.
I kinda love the conjugation and declensions in Latin, it's a language where once you learn the rules you know exactly how that word fits. You can almost throw sentence structure out the window. I find that neat, it must've been a fun language for poets.
Why does he also give the plural forms of his pronouns?
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I have to study it as part of high school. 'Nuff said...
Anytime I see someone mention pronouns, my brain instantly lessens the value of anything else they say.
Anyoe focused on that has a compromised thought process. It's one of those things that seems universally true.
You mentioned pronouns, so I'll treat you according to your own ruleset
You don't like when people tell you what to call them? What?
Anytime I see someone denigrating use of pronouns, I assume they have shit for brains.
Sounds like a safe assumption tbqh