Words have consistent and agreed upon meanings. If people just start changing those meanings or just start making up their own it damages the whole aim of the language.
Words have consistent and agreed upon meanings. If people just start changing those meanings or just start making up their own it damages the whole aim of the language.It's pointing out that your not wanting to use a word because it is made up is absurd. If you can't see that, you're being willfully ignorant.
Words have consistent and agreed upon meanings. If people just start changing those meanings or just start making up their own it damages the whole aim of the language.
Which is why you can use plenty of existing words to describe yourself if someone is interested enough in you to find out. Pronouns aren't for that.Words represent concepts, and our understanding those concepts can change over time. Trying to keep words static would, in fact, damage the whole aim of language.
Which is why you can use plenty of existing words to describe yourself if someone is interested enough in you to find out. Pronouns aren't for that.
But when pronouns have gender, as many of them do, you're going to run into problems.
Personally, I have no issue with using 'they' as a singular neutral pronoun, just as 'you' was once only plural but has also become singular, but a lot of people don't like that.
Lots of language is gendered, it's not trying to say anything deep and meaningful about you. That's just the way language works.
... because giving gender to arbitrary genderless stuff is one of the dumbest features of many languages
Why? It's just a way that the language works.
because it needlessly assigns a gender to something that doesn't have one, making something pointless that you have to remember.
But in those languages those things do have a gender. The world doesn't revolve around what you can remember!
Well they do in some languages.what? inanimate objects like furniture do not have a gender, regardless of how a language refers to them.
Well they do in some languages.
Hello there, childrenPreferred pronoun: Chef
That card is about one of the stupidest things I have ever read.
But how will people know I'm certified in Red Hat, yoga, and intermediate coffee grinding if I can't put it in my email sig?We had people at my company do crazy shit with the sig very unprofessional shit. Executives gave me the green light to stanardize email sigs and it was glorious hearing the herd bitch about it. The best part the users could not see the sig in the email body, Exchange added it when it was sent.
language
ˈlaŋɡwɪdʒ/
noun
- 1.
the method of human communication, either spoken or written, consisting of the use of words in a structured and conventional way.
Your name is there to refer to you specifically. The pronoun is just there because the English language needs one, stop trying to use it for something it's not meant to be for.
Weird. I've never seen that before. My signature at work is just name/title/org/email/phone.
I put my pants on over my head one ear at a time just like everyone else.Because you work with the big boys that know how to not be clinically insane - and learned to grow up in life? You manage to do such meaningful tasks like put on pants in the morning Me too! Let's start a me too movement.
Well you're just not Two-Spirit like I am!
In my lifetime, "Irregardless" has officially become a word....what the fuck is up with that? It was never a word, it meets the exact same definition and word use of "regardless," and is only ever engaged by observably stupid people. Yet, it is essentially "a word," because it is widely adopted by universal English dictionaries. I will go to my grave never recognizing that as a word, and immediately judging people that use it, treating them like shit for as long as I know them, but it doesn't matter because I lost. I know that. That's simply how it works.