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[–] bbpolterGAYst@lemmy.blahaj.zone 54 points 1 year ago

the "no pronoun people in my nintendo" part was so fucking funny that i had to look up whether this is bait or not

[–] moosetwin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 44 points 1 year ago (1 children)

saying that yer afraid of pronouns because trans people use them is like saying yer afraid of cereal because some people eat raisin bran and you eat frosted flakes

[–] Deiv@lemmy.ca 18 points 1 year ago

Let's be real tho, raisin bran is pretty fucking terrifying

[–] StarlightRose@lemmy.blahaj.zone 39 points 1 year ago (4 children)

no pronoun people in my nintendo my

Transphobes eVolved from one braincell collectively to two, and thats terrifying

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[–] pancakesyrupyum@kbin.social 30 points 1 year ago

So I don’t know what “Mario is pronouns now” means, and I don’t want to feed a Search Engine to figure it out. Sounds like I don’t need to know!

[–] SharkEatingBreakfast@sopuli.xyz 28 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Just start misgendering people who screech about hating pronouns.

"Hey, now! Leave Brian alone! She's just voicing her opinion! Don't attack her! She doesn't deserve all the hate just for that!"

[–] Jank@literature.cafe 7 points 1 year ago

I like to give them diminutive nicknames. Bill is now Wittle Biwwy. You don't get to choose what we call you, asshole.

[–] ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

The far right will hate it but the left won’t care since they’re gender abolitionists

[–] Velonie 19 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Maybe gender role abolitionists, but not gender altogether

[–] ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago

It’s the same thing

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[–] Franzia@lemmy.blahaj.zone 24 points 1 year ago (1 children)

They calling me xi/xer like I'm Caesar

[–] Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 1 year ago

conqueror of CISalpine gaul

[–] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 19 points 1 year ago

Pronouns are played out.

I'm all about amateurnouns.

[–] CarlsIII@kbin.social 17 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] Ignacio@kbin.social 5 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I think it's an adjective.

[–] Castigant@lemm.ee 10 points 1 year ago (4 children)

By most modern accounts, it's a determiner.

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[–] Eagle0600@yiffit.net 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

"My" is the first-person singular possessive pronoun in English. It fills the same role in a sentence as the pronouns "his" or "her" or "their".

"This is my/his/her/their thing."

I don't see how it could be anything but a pronoun.

[–] Ignacio@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

A pronoun replaces the noun. An adjective usually accompanies the noun, but it never replaces it.

"My house is there". I've never heard anyone saying "My is there". But I did hear saying "Mine is there".

[–] Eagle0600@yiffit.net 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

That's actually a matter of some contraversiality.

You can't actually just replace "my" in a sentence with an adjective and have it come out sounding natural. You can say "this is my house" but you can't say "this is big house". You're missing a determiner, not an adjective.

Possessive determiners are determiners which express possession. Some traditional grammars of English refer to them as possessive adjectives, though they do not have the same syntactic distribution as bona fide adjectives.[1]

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The words my, your, etc. are sometimes classified, along with mine, yours etc., as possessive pronouns[3][4] or genitive pronouns, since they are the possessive (or genitive) forms of the ordinary personal pronouns I, you etc. However, unlike most other pronouns, they do not behave grammatically as stand-alone nouns but instead qualify another noun, as in my book (contrasted with that's mine, for example, in which mine substitutes for a complete noun phrase such as my book). For that reason, other authors restrict the term "possessive pronoun" to the group of words mine, yours etc., which replaces directly a noun or noun phrase.[5][6] — Wikipedia, Possessive determiner

This is further complicated by the fact that some words are sometimes true pronouns, and sometimes possessive determiners (his, her, its). In this way, it is difficult to fully separate the role of possessive determiner from the role of pronoun.

But thank you for making me research it a bit more.

[–] PhlubbaDubba@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Depends on the language, some languages use the pronoun as the possessive as well.

[–] lugal@sopuli.xyz 8 points 1 year ago

He, she, it, das S muss mit

[–] jcdenton@lemy.lol 1 points 1 year ago

When the business is pandering