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It's a terrible timeline to be in at the moment, at least white people are experiencing the policing non-whites suffer from in this country (lemmy.ca)
submitted 10 months ago by to c/boycottus@lemmy.ca
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ICE agents in a shooting range aiming at photos of families.
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[–] 0 points 10 months ago* (2 children)

ICE is an American institution, so the pronouns are used appropriately.

Otherwise, they'd have to replace the pronoun "their" with "Immigration and Customs Enforcement", or ICE again in the same sentence, and so on.

Pronouns are used as a substitute for the subject so that you don't have to use the same exact term repeatedly in conversation.

The pronouns following the subject all pertain to the subject until the subject is changed.

This is ENGLISH!

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  • [–] 2 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    should be "that country," no?

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  • [–] 1 point 10 months ago*

    People make mistakes with pronouns constantly, as pronouns are not "exact" and are themselves placeholders, an approximation for the subject to avoid nearly constant repetition.

    Once you start correcting the pronouns of others, you make conversations about anything else virtually impossible. It's the destroyer of many threads, done purposefully or not.

    As they say in linguistics, just go with it; only then will you get to THE SUBJECT itself

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