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Re: Things that made you sad today thread.
« Reply #60645 on: April 22, 2013, 02:21:28 am »
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I (mostly) blame the lack of gender neutral pronouns in English.
S/h/it?

My gender-neutral pronoun of choice from now on shall be "shit".

Most people on the internet already call each other "shit".

Damn.  English is a more functional language than I realized!
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Re: Things that made you sad today thread.
« Reply #60646 on: April 22, 2013, 02:41:20 am »
It's likely 'they' is going to become a sanctioned singular pronoun in the near-ish future.
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Re: Things that made you sad today thread.
« Reply #60647 on: April 22, 2013, 02:46:30 am »
Quote from: SalmonGod on April 22, 2013, 02:19:07 am
My gender-neutral pronoun of choice from now on shall be "shit".
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Re: Things that made you sad today thread.
« Reply #60648 on: April 22, 2013, 02:56:44 am »
I wonder why English's masculine default evolved into being not default...
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Re: Things that made you sad today thread.
« Reply #60649 on: April 22, 2013, 03:00:21 am »
Feminist movement.
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Re: Things that made you sad today thread.
« Reply #60650 on: April 22, 2013, 03:02:04 am »
Feminists: more influential to our language than Shakespeare? More at 11.
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« Reply #60651 on: April 22, 2013, 03:06:01 am »
HAHAHA

No, I think Shakespeare is why we're saying "they" instead of "he or she," but I'm pretty sure the reason why we're moving off "he" as default is because of feminist stuff.
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Re: Things that made you sad today thread.
« Reply #60652 on: April 22, 2013, 03:07:37 am »
Quote from: Vector on April 22, 2013, 03:06:01 am
HAHAHA

No, I think Shakespeare is why we're saying "they" instead of "he or she," but I'm pretty sure the reason why we're moving off "he" as default is because of feminist stuff.
And here I thought feminists were all about equality. :p
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Re: Things that made you sad today thread.
« Reply #60653 on: April 22, 2013, 03:16:12 am »
Quote from: Vector on April 22, 2013, 03:06:01 am
HAHAHA

No, I think Shakespeare is why we're saying "they" instead of "he or she," but I'm pretty sure the reason why we're moving off "he" as default is because of feminist stuff.
Personally, I can't really understand the English-specific aversion to 'he' as a default. Romance languages seem to be perfectly content with using the masculine versions of verbs until proven incorrect... It's just a grammar construct x3

Then again, English doesn't make the most sense linguistically by a far shot.
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Re: Things that made you sad today thread.
« Reply #60654 on: April 22, 2013, 03:20:49 am »
People don't make the mos sense linguistically.
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Re: Things that made you sad today thread.
« Reply #60655 on: April 22, 2013, 03:21:11 am »
I've usually assumed people use "he" or "she" as base depending on their own gender.
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Re: Things that made you sad today thread.
« Reply #60656 on: April 22, 2013, 03:26:31 am »
Well boats, ships even cars have always been referred to as 'she' in most cases.
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Re: Things that made you sad today thread.
« Reply #60657 on: April 22, 2013, 03:29:15 am »
Quote from: Ultimuh on April 22, 2013, 03:26:31 am
Well boats, ships even cars have always been referred to as 'she' in most cases.
Which brings up horrible implications in my mind.
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Re: Things that made you sad today thread.
« Reply #60658 on: April 22, 2013, 05:09:07 am »
Quote from: Xantalos on April 22, 2013, 02:46:30 am
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My gender-neutral pronoun of choice from now on shall be "shit".
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Re: Things that made you sad today thread.
« Reply #60659 on: April 22, 2013, 06:45:33 am »
Quote from: Jervill on April 20, 2013, 10:53:32 am
This better not be one of those days where it turns into endless hipster whining about how stuff was better before x, or was ruined forever by some miniscule change.

Given that my whole scenario about "Why people dislike when their things become popular" could occur between a single generation and often can be entirely transformed and unrecognizable.

I am going to go no.

Not everyone cares about superficial details and when it comes to things like that I tend to be much more fair then most people.

This better not be one of those days where it turns into endless hippy whining about how people have actual attachments to things.
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