I didn’t know you were the Grand Arbitrator of Dysphoria Committee of the Queer Community™; it wasn’t in the newsletter.

and yet you’re policing language by insisting on what words to use for other people. and censoring yourself lmfao. prescriptivism is a two-way street

k then I’m not going to call you by your name because it’s just a word.

ugh I’m throwing up in my mouth

nah, BNW is just “see what liberals want to do to us?!?!?!”. Manufacturing Consent is much better

I regret that I have but one star to give to you

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Centrism does not hold the values you think it holds. “Center between Dems and Reps”, sure, but not centrism. As poll and poll shows, the majority of people support things such as taxing the rich more, universal health care, etc. That’s centrism compared to the rest of the world. Dems and Reps continually think that…

I’m team Abuse Victim not abuser. God people children have bodily autonomy and adults have bodily autonomy.

We use they all the time to refer to a person of non-specific gender. It’s been in common use since the 1300s.

Ha. Dude our economy is twice the size of yours. If anything we dwarf you

Also not to mention that CA is 13% of the US economy, so...

How about a volley of linguists calling BS on “grammatical correctness”?

Profanity aside, your conceptions of what is and isn’t grammatical are false. Style guides and grammatical norms are socially constructed and have nothing to do with the syntax of a language; there are only dialectical distinctions. In fact, these norms are quite often sexist, racist, classist, ableist, homophobic,…

As a linguist I want to tell you to fuck off

As a fellow linguistics person I concur. This is the shit I harp on when talking about gender-neutral language. Fuck, fellow internet linguists and I were just talking about race, gender, and language this week.

Well, there’s also the issue of not having a Humpty-Dumpty theory of meaning, where words change meaning because of intension. It’s hard to know where to draw the line between prescriptivism and having a functional theory of linguistic meaning sometimes.

I had a pretty similar experience when I was applying. 4.7 GPA (out of 4), like 6 APs, plus college classes, plus skipping a year in HS. 97th percentile SAT/ACT scores too (don’t remember the exact number rn). Marching band throughout high school plus arranging for the band, and other things.  

Airfoil also does this in addition to acting as a sort of audio server for all your wireless audio devices. Not free though, but worth it in my opinion