🏳️⚧ 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!

  • EmmaGoldman [she/her, comrade/them]
    hexbear
    3
    5 months ago

    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.

      • EmmaGoldman [she/her, comrade/them]
        hexbear
        2
        edit-2
        5 months ago

        "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."

        • Erika3sis [she/her, xe/xem]
          hexbear
          1
          5 months ago

          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.