• Foxfire@pawb.social
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      23 hours ago

      Pronoun absence renders speech…annoying. Difficult to declaratively refer, noun repetition is required. Foxfire does not enjoy pronoun absence.

      • Another Catgirl@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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        8 hours ago

        y’all are still using 3rd person singular conjugations. These verb forms are not suitable for our plural friends, and therefore still have a chance to misgender them.

      • maria ~@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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        23 hours ago

        yea no i get it, it makes sense. i dooooo think noun repetition would be better than not putting anything… even if that would be funny

        • fakeman_pretendname@feddit.uk
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          14 hours ago

          Maria says at that point, Maria would just use the name, probably.

          Maria says Maria gets it, and Maria says it makes sense to Maria. Maria does think that noun repetition would be better (to Maria) than not putting anything - even if it would be funny to Maria.

          • Anarki_@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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            13 hours ago

            Attempted to keep it making sense:

            Maria says at that point, would just use the name, probably.

            Maria says gets it, and that it makes sense. Maria does think that noun repetition would be better than not putting anything - even if it would be funny to Maria.

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                11 hours ago

                Assuming you aren’t joking…

                “It” being a pronoun would only become a problem if the challenge was the following: “while talking about that person, you cannot use any pronouns”.
                However, the current challenge is instead “you cannot refer to this person using any pronouns, because the person has none”. That means we can refer to things other than the person with pronouns. And that’s what Anarki_ does. If you don’t believe it yet, look at the spoilered text above, where I show what each of the pronouns is referring to.

                Click Me! :D

                Maria says gets it […]

                Pronoun referring to: the removal of ex-wife’s pronouns by the ex-wife that the OP refers to.


                […] and that it makes sense.

                Pronoun referring to: the same thing as last time.


                […] - even if it would be funny to Maria.

                Pronoun referring to: not putting anything to refer to the ex-wife mentioned in the OP


                As you can see, no pronouns refer to either Maria or to the ex-wife, but to actions and things said by these two persons. :D

            • yetAnotherUser@lemmy.ca
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              11 hours ago

              Maria says gets it, and that it makes sense.

              I don’t know if “Maria says gets it” is a gramatically correct English phrase. In case it isn’t, I would either use…

              Maria says Maria gets it, and that it makes sense

              …or get rid of the passive phrasing for clarity, like this…

              Maria says something similar to the following: “Maria gets it. It makes sense.”