Because language is a pretty important building block of civilization and allowing each person to make up their own rules and meanings means that there are no rules or meanings. (I tried to type slowly, were you able to follow that?)

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Posted by WildTchoupitoulas

Member since Jan 2010

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Posted on 4/20/24 at 12:01 pm to shinerfan

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Because language is a pretty important building block of civilization and allowing each person to make up their own rules and meanings means that there are no rules or meanings.

Languages change over time.

If the choice is between using xe/xem or ze/zim, or simply going with constructions for which there is already a precedent, such as "you/you" for second person pronouns, I'd rather go with simply recognizing third person pronouns just like we already do with second person pronouns rather than introducing made up words such as xe/xem or ze/zim.

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I tried to type slowly, were you able to follow that?

But then I don't get so angry over it. I'm not sure why you're so invested, except for perhaps the possibility that it all strikes a bit too close to home for you, personally.

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Posted by Lsupimp

Ersatz Amerika-97.6% phony & fake

Member since Nov 2003

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Posted on 4/20/24 at 3:10 pm to shinerfan

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language is a pretty important building block of civilization

Except you aren't talking to someone who wants to preserve civilization. You are talking to Wild Tchoupitoulas and he only moves FORWARD! Even if he tries to fit in with the baws of the OT by dogging the embarrassingly bad policies he votes for. We are at the point of FORWARD where we take our children to get their dicks cut off and declare war on our women so dudes with a fetish can shower with underage girls. And we still have so much more FORWARD to go because Democrats and self-styled sophisticates won't stop voting for it.

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