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Ookami38

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I think the two of you are talking about different ideas of consistency. Drag’s idea of consistency is that “drag” as a pronoun stays more or less consistent, never really conjugating. The alternative view is that drag’s pronouns are inconsistent with ~how the rest of English uses pronouns~. The fact that drag’s pronouns are, technically, simpler makes them read inconsistently from the rest of the English pronouns, and that causes confusion such as seeing the first person “drag’s” as talking in the third person.

The pronouns are internally consistent, but not externally, so to say.

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Slow down in general. You ain’t the good guy here, crying over someone driving slowly IN THE SNOW.

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Gonna start using “season 8” as a euphemism for a particularly bad shit now. “Brb, gotta produce season 8…”

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Maybe you can open 'er if you’re a gentleman.

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Yeah, that seems to be the conclusion I reached. I think the singular they and the plural they was messing with me hah.

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Between drag and the person talking in thorns, lemmy has been fun to read lately. Y’all ain’t hurting anyone, anyone has a problem with it they can just mute and move on.

Legit question that my comment made me think of, though - what are drag’s feelings on pronouns like “y’all” - see also “you guys” etc?

Edit: mulling it over, I think “y’all” only felt initially weird to me because I was equating it to “they”, but “they” has two uses - one to refer to a single person without gendering, and one to refer to a group of many people. “Y’all” in this case would be the equivalent of the second, not really the first.

Idk, language is hard, just fuckin get along.

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That one wasn’t reeeeeeeeally writing at random though.

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Security is, and always has been, a matter of making your shit harder and take longer to break. Any security is penetrable, given enough time and willpower, just make sure it takes longer than it’s worth.

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