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minus-squareMovingThrowaway [none/use name]hexbear54·2 months agoIt's a normal part of speech in like half of statesian dialects, including AAVE Having grown up with it I honestly think it's weirder not to have a gender-neutral second-person pleural pronoun. link
minus-squarejoaomarrom [he/him, comrade/them]hexbear29·2 months agoYeah! What drives me nuts is that some libs like using it as a kind of folksy affectation, but I might be reading too much into it link
minus-squareRedWizard [he/him]hexbear26·2 months agoI get ya, funny enough, I feel the same way about "folks". Maybe we just need to start saying "Comrade" publicly instead. link
minus-squareAwoo [she/her]hexbear21·2 months ago Maybe we just need to start saying "Comrade" publicly instead. You should have seen the labour party conferences (televised) during Corbyn's party leadership. Here's a supercut https://streamable.com/vbi0l4 link
minus-squarequeermunist she/her@lemmy.mlhexbear5·edit-22 months agoBut have you considered comm raid: shadow legends? wait no that sucks 😞 linkfedilink
minus-squareClimateChangeAnxiety [he/him, they/them]hexbear18·2 months agoI feel the same way about “folks,” ironically it kinda feels like the liberal version of “comrade” in that they both feel like cosplay link
minus-squareMovingThrowaway [none/use name]hexbear17·2 months agoI like comrade having connotations of communist tho, I hope that doesn't get generalized. link
minus-squareFanonFan [comrade/them, any]hexbear16·2 months agoThere's occasionally a tinge of white liberal urban superiority complex when people from the coasts use it, for sure. link
minus-square420blazeit69 [he/him]hexbear17·2 months agoEmbrace your inner Philadelphian Embrace "yous" link
minus-squareSoyViking [he/him]hexbear6·2 months agoSome cunning linguist could definitely do something interesting investigating the "dialects" of political parties or movements, like a spiritual successor to Victor Klemperer's LTI. link
It's a normal part of speech in like half of statesian dialects, including AAVE
Having grown up with it I honestly think it's weirder not to have a gender-neutral second-person pleural pronoun.
Yeah! What drives me nuts is that some libs like using it as a kind of folksy affectation, but I might be reading too much into it
I get ya, funny enough, I feel the same way about "folks". Maybe we just need to start saying "Comrade" publicly instead.
You should have seen the labour party conferences (televised) during Corbyn's party leadership.
Here's a supercut https://streamable.com/vbi0l4
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I'm more partial to comm rads but /shrug
But have you considered
comm raid: shadow legends?
wait no that sucks 😞
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I feel the same way about “folks,” ironically it kinda feels like the liberal version of “comrade” in that they both feel like cosplay
I like comrade having connotations of communist tho, I hope that doesn't get generalized.
There's occasionally a tinge of white liberal urban superiority complex when people from the coasts use it, for sure.
Agreed
Embrace your inner Philadelphian
Embrace "yous"
Synthesis: Yous'll
Paul "Yous'll" Muad'Dib Atreides
Some cunning linguist could definitely do something interesting investigating the "dialects" of political parties or movements, like a spiritual successor to Victor Klemperer's LTI.