I'll start.

There really is no point to monogamy other than to feed one's ego and aspiring to have your own children over adopting is its own form of eugenics.

  • Parysian [they/them]
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    4 years ago

    Okay my stupid and obviously biased take: We should strive to remove gendered pronouns from English. Gendering adjectives and nouns is bad and dumb, and getting rid of that was a superb move on the part of the otherwise vile Britons. Including gender in the way we refer to someone in the third person is as stupid as gendering the adjectives we describe someone with.

    That being said until this is accomplished (and with how long it takes languages to shift this wouldn't be in my lifetime) I will vigorously defend my trans comrades' right to be referred to by whatever the fuck pronoun they please.

    Also, yall is good. Make yall an official word, with no apostrophe.

    • YeForPrez2020 [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      I would like to piggyback my unpopular take off of yours. I hate the word yall. I hate the way it makes me feel, I hate the way it comes out of my mouth, but I feel so forced to use it because there is no other alternative that feels as good at what it is. Ustedes and Les feels fantastic, yall or "you all" sucks.

      • Sen_Jen [they/them]
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        4 years ago

        In Ireland we say "ye" for the plural you, but if an American ever said that I think I would shrivel up and die

        • pooh [she/her]
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          4 years ago

          Certain parts of the US use “yinz” in the same way. I wonder if there’s any connection there.

            • pooh [she/her]
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              4 years ago

              Looks like it's short for "you ones":

              Yinz is the most recent derivation from the original Scots-Irish form you ones or "yous ones", a form of the second person plural commonly heard in parts of Ulster. When standard-English speakers talk in the first person or third person, they use different pronouns to distinguish between singular and plural. In the first person, for example, speakers use the singular I and the plural we. But when speaking in the second person, you performs double duty as both the singular form and the plural form. Crozier (1984) suggests that during the 19th century, when many Irish speakers switched to speaking English, they filled this gap with you ones, primarily because Irish has a singular second-person pronoun, tú, as well as a plural form, sibh. The following, therefore, is the most likely path from you ones to yinz: you ones [juː wʌnz] > you'uns [juːʌnz] > youns [juːnz] > yunz [jʌnz] > yinz [jɪ̈nz]. Because there are still speakers who use each form,[2] there is no stable second-person plural pronoun form in southwest or central Pennsylvania, which is why the pronoun is variably referred to or spelled as you'uns, y'ins, y'uns, yunz, yuns, yinz, yenz, yins or ynz.

      • PouncySilverkitten [none/use name]
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        4 years ago

        I would be fine with y’all, except that 90% of the time I see or hear it, the speaker is condescending to me or they’re mad at me for something I don’t control.

      • Goovis__young [he/him]
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        4 years ago

        I like "guys" or "you guys," it's pretty deeply ingrained in me by habit but i think it's probably not the best to use.

        • YeForPrez2020 [he/him]
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          4 years ago

          yeah, you know what I like guys best too, that's probably what I use the most. Why can't we just redefine the word 'guy' as gender neutral :/