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

Eh. You understood what they meant. That’s all the counts in linguistics.

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

Copy-paste again:

I’m just going to copy-paste:

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…

Repeat after me: there is no such thing as ethical capitalism. I will have to engage in unscrupulous practices to live.

Billion. Ya know, with a b. 10^9.

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

But it’s not the most powerful laptop built to date. That honor would go to a System76 Bonobo WS with maxed out specs. Its Kaby Lake i7 has twice the clock speed of this one

I’m a linguist. (I study language professionally.) There is no such thing as an unnecessary burden on language.

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,…