Julius Caesar was assassinated for wearing red boots. Barrack Obama was lambasted for wearing a tan suit. Purple is associated with royalty, white is associated with clergy, and gold is associated with superiority. Red and Blue have powerful meanings in America, and so does Green. Which colour is the most political in your opinion?

  • Dragon Rider (drag)@lemmy.nzOP
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    3 months ago

    Is drag to understand that your position is that pronouns cannot sound similar to the names of the people who have them?

    Somebody should tell Sheila and Hector they need to change their pronouns, then.

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      3 months ago

      The problem is that you don’t know what a pronoun is. You should try writing a sentence with common pronouns first and see if your sentence makes any grammatical sense. For instance “is <name> to understand that…” doesn’t work, because “is me/I to understand” doesn’t work. You would instead say “Am drag to understand”, which while sounding a bit odd is at least actually writing in English.

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      There are people named Yuu, Mi and Ai. However:

      • They likely didn’t choose their name.
      • Their name only matches ONE pronoun they use, not ALL of a given person.
      • Their first person and third person pronouns aren’t the same.

      Think of the line “I am Gandalf, and Gandalf means me.” Ai would say “I am Ai, and Ai means me”, which sounds odd but hey ho. You would say “Drag is Drag, and Drag means drag”, which is borderline nonsense.

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        No, drag would say drag is Dragon “Rider”, and dragonfucker means drag.

        Drag is tired of listening to you being wrong about drag’s identity. Don’t you have to go be silly somewhere else?

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      […]Hector they need to change their pronouns, then.

      Yes, Hee-ctor

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          Lmao…now I’m picturing He-Man talking like a caveman by replacing all of his personal pronouns with “He-Man”…but not conjugating the verbs as if he were speaking in the third-person.

          He-man have the power!

          Love it!