• Ookami38
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    19 days ago

    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.

    • Dragon Rider (drag)@lemmy.nzOP
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      19 days ago

      Y’all and they refer to a group of people. Drag’s pronouns don’t change the group’s pronouns. Just like if someone in the group uses she/her, that doesn’t change the group’s pronouns. A group could be all women who all use she/her, and the group would still use they/them.

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        19 days ago

        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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      16 days ago

      The thorn person is messing with my head, I’m not a native English speaker yet I can read them perfectly