• flicker@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    Honestly, I’m bi in a hetero relationship currently, and this would summon me like nothing else.

    Except maybe masculine crying to Johnny Cash singing “Hurt.”

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            5 months ago

            True, but I, at least, had to do a double take. I’m not a native speaker, but it’s much the same in my native language.

            Being understandable feels like the minimum ask of language, isn’t it better to also make it easy to read to a broad audience?

            Not saying you have to be a dick about it, just that prescriptivism has its benefits.

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        5 months ago

        when you say something belongs to you, you don’t call it “I’s thing” - you call it “my thing”.

        if it belongs to your friends Jim and Bob, it’s “Jim and Bob’s thing” or “Jim’s and Bob’s thing”. likewise, when it belongs to your gf and yourself, it makes more sense to say “my gf and my” or “my gf’s and my”, rather than inventing a brand new word that sounds so very stupid.