▲ 413 ▼ 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 Sunshine@lemmy.ca to c/boycottus@lemmy.ca 44 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] jaselle@lemmy.ca 2 points 10 months ago (1 child) should be "that country," no? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] Mulligrubs@lemmy.world 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 permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Mulligrubs@lemmy.world 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 permalink fedilink source parent
