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Fix your heart.

totony 6y ago
There is a point at which empathy does not supercede the mental and societal burden required to appease people
tasogare 6y ago
Fix your grammar. English is the only foreign language I can read where I routinely have to pause to wonder and read sentences again to be sure of what’s going on because of purposely messed up pronoun usage. Normally I’m lucky as the rules are the same as my native language (his encompass both genders when speaking of a group). However recently I’ve come across usage such as singular they and even more striking ‘her’ to encompass both gender. This bugs me out each time, not because I’m trying to be offended of everything I read (that’s an easy game...) but because if a text is deviating from convention it’s normally to put the focus or emphasis on something. In the case of her for example, this screams "warning: in this sentence the human under discussion is a woman and this is a very relevant fact for the understanding of the text". So I naturally start paying more attention to that. Except it’s not an important detail at all so it doesn’t need any attention whatsoever. This is the infuriating thing. The most ridiculous recent example of this I read was a technical document written by a Microsoft employee, where her was used as the default generic pronoun for programmers... I took me a few seconds to realize I wasn’t reading doc written in a parallel universe. For made up pronouns, they require searching on the web which is super annoying too. So yes, I refuse to play the attention game of a few people that are decided to ruin fluid reading for anyone else for their own self-important interests. They are doing the same in my native language on a larger scale and my opposition is consequently stronger there. Language is a shared good and is the basis of human communication, so it must not weaponized by an infime minority to create division among people.

Fix your heart.

There is a point at which empathy does not supercede the mental and societal burden required to appease people

Fix your grammar. English is the only foreign language I can read where I routinely have to pause to wonder and read sentences again to be sure of what’s going on because of purposely messed up pronoun usage. Normally I’m lucky as the rules are the same as my native language (his encompass both genders when speaking of a group). However recently I’ve come across usage such as singular they and even more striking ‘her’ to encompass both gender. This bugs me out each time, not because I’m trying to be offended of everything I read (that’s an easy game...) but because if a text is deviating from convention it’s normally to put the focus or emphasis on something. In the case of her for example, this screams "warning: in this sentence the human under discussion is a woman and this is a very relevant fact for the understanding of the text". So I naturally start paying more attention to that. Except it’s not an important detail at all so it doesn’t need any attention whatsoever. This is the infuriating thing. The most ridiculous recent example of this I read was a technical document written by a Microsoft employee, where her was used as the default generic pronoun for programmers... I took me a few seconds to realize I wasn’t reading doc written in a parallel universe. For made up pronouns, they require searching on the web which is super annoying too. So yes, I refuse to play the attention game of a few people that are decided to ruin fluid reading for anyone else for their own self-important interests. They are doing the same in my native language on a larger scale and my opposition is consequently stronger there. Language is a shared good and is the basis of human communication, so it must not weaponized by an infime minority to create division among people.