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A place to share screenshots of Microblog posts, whether from Mastodon, tumblr, ~~Twitter~~ X, KBin, Threads or elsewhere.

Created as an evolution of White People Twitter and other tweet-capture subreddits.

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Please put at least one word relevant to the post in the post title.
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Pronouns (lemmy.world)

submitted 4 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] Chakravanti 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

"They" also refers to plurality. In the case of an individual having either both or neither and you aren't trying to be disrespectful with "it" then it's not confusing at all because it's accurate.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

That's not relevant to our conversation here - we're not talking about how language should be used (which linguistics, as an empirical/rationalist science, has nothing to say about), we're talking about how it is used.