🏳️⚧ Charlie 🏳️⚧, @ilovelrealppl
Trans peeps...have you considered opening an: Antique store?
Consignment shop?
Scrap yard?
Or just having a garage sale?
Guaranteed success. People are very interested in our junk!
🏳️⚧ Charlie 🏳️⚧, @ilovelrealppl
Trans peeps...have you considered opening an: Antique store?
Consignment shop?
Scrap yard?
Or just having a garage sale?
Guaranteed success. People are very interested in our junk!
The weird thing is that I know that "junk" is an uncountable noun, yet "our junk" to collectively refer to the genitalia of trans people feels wrong to me? Almost like the tweet is implying that all trans people share one set of genitals as a group, rather than having one set of genitals per person.
Does it feel equally unnatural to you with other uncountables like “money”?
CW: slightly violent language for lack of better examples
I wonder how much of this is context-dependent in language — “In stupidity, we started to attack ourselves” doesn’t tend to imply each group member injuring themself, but “We will kill ourselves tonight” seems to
Your example doesn't feel wierd to me, "our junk" does though.
Ah, well in that case, you should assume the luxury space trans communists collectivized all the junk :3
"Started to attack ourselves" I understood with the correct meaning, but I don't think I would ever phrase that sentence with "ourselves" rather than "each other".
It feels wrong to me too.
Do you have issues with synecdoche, where a part of something is used to refer to a whole, or the inverse of that? Boots referring to soldiers, or a city's name referring to a sports team associated with that city?
This may be a dialect issue, rather than one of formal English grammar.
Not that I'm aware of, do you want to give me example sentences?
"Chicago have absolutely no chance of beating Minneapolis tonight."
"There's a buncha sweater vests coming in here trying to tell us how to do our jobs instead of actually contributing to getting anything done."
Second example feels normal, the first one I'd probably say "has" instead of "have" but that isn't really related to the city's name being used to refer to the sports team, that's normal.