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[–] casmael@lemm.ee 5 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Personally I think pronouns should be abolished altogether - think of the cumulative time you could save by trimming the language like that. Trim the fat. After all, why use many word when few word do trick?

[–] doleo@kbin.social 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Said same thing to friend, earlier. Said to was a stupid idea and need functional words to build meaningful sentences. Don't agree with.

[–] imatree@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yet here I am, reading your sentence twice to understand it.

[–] casmael@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

Why read twice when once do trick?

[–] Arrakis@feddit.uk 1 points 1 year ago

Pronouns are double plus ungood.

[–] Honytawk@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Completely agreed.

Pronouns stem from a time when it mattered whether or not a sentence was about a man or a woman. Sentences about men were given a higher status.

Once we accepted women are equal to men, it really doesn't matter what the gender is of the person the sentence is about. They are human, that should be enough.

I've been replacing all pronouns with they/them for a while, even in my daily life.