• iltg@sh.itjust.works
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    5 months ago

    you don’t understand the language and thus everyone should comply with you? i’d rather read correct english than what you find more understandable

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      5 months ago

      You obviously understand English to a lesser degree than me. I nowhere wrote that I made demands to comply with me. Where on earth do you get that idea that offering a perspective is a demand?

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        4 months ago

        then use “they”, do you speak exclusively with yourself? your linguistic choices affect others, just like others’ linguistic choices affect you (as you were noticing and complaining about)

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          4 months ago

          then use “they”

          After 30 years of education saying otherwise it is not so easy.

          do you speak exclusively with yourself?

          I don’t speak English with others at all. I’m not in an English speaking country.

          your linguistic choices affect others

          Having a hard time grasping completely new concepts is not a choice.