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  • lugal@lemmy.oneto196@lemmy.blahaj.zoneSingular they rule
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    1 year ago

    Actually it’s older than people think. Shakespeare used it for stuff like “Every knight grabbed their sword”, and even for talking about a specific person it’s not a new phenomenon to use singular they if the gender doesn’t matter (so I was told in a linguistics sub over on r*ddit when I insisted it was new)

    The only new thing is that people say, it’s their prefered pronoun.





  • lugal@lemmy.onetoLinguistics HumorNani?
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    Maybe that helps: there is always one (or rather never more than one) strongly declined element before the noun.

    Ich fahre das blaue Auto. (Definite articles are always strong)

    Ich fahre ein blaues Auto. (Indefinite articles are most often weak so the adjective is strong)

    Eines schönen Tages. (I said most often. Genitive singular indefinite articles are strong, obviously)

    Thinking in terms of strong and weak declination is key. But maybe it’s obvious. It wasn’t for me when I learned about it in linguistic lectures in university.











  • Totally relatable! As you already pointed out, it’s the “a day” part. I like listening to the radio but I talked to a former car radio tester who said that his car radio is never on and he enjoys the silence. It’s one thing to do stuff you like when you want to, maybe even binge, and another to have a schedule.

    I started programming at school and when I studied computer science, another student asked me after the first semester what I’m going to program on vacation. I stared at them and said I have vacation. Now I programm full time and barely in my free time.


  • lugal@lemmy.oneto196@lemmy.blahaj.zonerule
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    Please put an NSFW tag on this. I was on the train and when I saw this I had to start furiously masterbating. Everyone else gave me strange looks and were saying things like “what the fuck” and “call the police”. I dropped my phone and everyone around me saw this image. Now there is a whole train of men masterbating together at this one image. This is all your fault, you could have prevented this if you had just tagged this post NSFW.