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"Guys" is exclusionary to people that aren't men, as well as those who aren't 17th century Catholic republicans (the British kind, not the American kind).Electric Wrigglies posted:Folks? What are you olde timey? Folks is actually fairly popular with younger generations, particularly leftist or queer circles.
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In case it wasn't clear, I was comparing the situation in English to languages with syntactic gender which means that almost all of the examples you provided would translate to something gendered. In English you can use any of them, and yet a lot of people insist on a gendered one.
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Baron von Eevl posted:Folks is actually fairly popular with younger generations, particularly leftist or queer circles. I've also seen people use folx for a reason I don't remember but I don't know if that is pronounced differently
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Baron von Eevl posted:Folks is actually fairly popular with younger generations, particularly leftist or queer circles. folks is what I say and it's very useful as a low-key way of flagging that I'm queer to those who are of a similar ilk
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DaysBefore posted:I've also seen people use folx for a reason I don't remember but I don't know if that is pronounced differently It's not it's just kind of a flag that you're trying to be inclusive.
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as a girl I don't mind "guys" but I sure as hell hate boys or dudes. this guy is a professor so he can super easily just say "hey class"
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Does "hello everyone" not work anymore???
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Bad news everyone! We're in space!
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Kurieg posted:It's not it's just kind of a flag that you're trying to be inclusive. Is there something gross about 'folks' or is it just an extra indicator of being cool?
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an indicator that you use twitter
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hey blood,
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DaysBefore posted:Is there something gross about 'folks' or is it just an extra indicator of being cool? I think they were saying folx isn't pronounced differently from folks, it's just an indicator you're trying to be inclusive in your language when spelled folx
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I'm pretty sure this is the winner
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sugar free jazz posted:hey blood, sup OG
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DaysBefore posted:I've also seen people use folx for a reason I don't remember but I don't know if that is pronounced differently I assume it's just applying the logic of saying "punx" to "folks."
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Hasn’t this thread established dude as an all inclusive term?
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Dazerbeams posted:Hasn’t this thread established dude as an all inclusive term? I'm partial to brosef and broheim myself
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Dazerbeams posted:Hasn’t this thread established dude as an all inclusive term? Only if you're bad enough to rescue the president
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Listen Fat,
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Cacator posted:I'm partial to brosef and broheim myself Broheimdall, guardian of the rainbro bridge
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haveblue posted:Yo yo yo yo yo, what it is motherfuckers! Awwww poo poo, here comes Pacman
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MK-Ultramarathon posted:Was there someone trying to make an argument online at one point that using "y'all" was... appropriation or something? I feel like I remember seeing some takes on Twitter around those lines. Calling poo poo cultural appropriation rather than just saying "oh that guy is an rear end in a top hat who keeps doing something that upset other people" is a bit of a pet peeve of mine because you can't have a proper multicultural society without exchanging ideas (for example, recipes, languages, climate appropriate clothing, literally the number zero). Cultural appropriation is 100% a real thing but it would be good if people used a bit of judgement before dropping it. E.g. if someone has come in and obliterated the locals and rebranded their identities as sports teams that's appropriation. Wearing a wrap your neighbour bought you for your birthday because you said it was pretty isn't cultural appropriation, it's just cultures coexisting peacefully and exchanging ideas with each other. Making and selling racist dolls isn't cultural appropriation, it's just racism. (Shoutout to Queensland here, the most consistently garbage state.) TLDR: People misusing cultural appropriation to criticise any sort of cultural information exchange is veering into a "race mixing is bad" space that I find really disconcerting.
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Dazerbeams posted:Hasn’t this thread established dude as an all inclusive term? The mid-40s mother of 3 on my team as work is the biggest dude of all of us, so yeah, at least in my corner of the world, anyone can be a dude.
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StrangersInTheNight posted:I think they were saying folx isn't pronounced differently from folks, it's just an indicator you're trying to be inclusive in your language when spelled folx Yeah, I was saying it's not pronounced differently. It sort of extends from where people would toss X in place of the gendered end of nouns to make them more inclusive. so "Folx" is just "Folks but somehow even more inclusive."
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Baron von Eevl posted:Folks is actually fairly popular with younger generations, particularly leftist or queer circles. That's cute and I'm glad for them, but I absolutely cannot hear the word 'folks' without a loop of Obama saying 'We tortured some folks' playing in my head
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haveblue posted:Yo yo yo yo yo, what it is motherfuckers! Aw poo poo, here comes Pac-Man.
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AITA for getting dressed in a seperate cubicle and not together with my husbandquote:So me and my husband wanted to go swimming. When we packed our things, asked if he could put his stuff in my bag. I said that my bag was too small and that I'd prefer to go in a seperate cubicle, just so I'd have more space. He didn't object. Imagine having something like this be the thing that reveals your husband is actually a selfish insane person. I wonder how long they've been married? sephiRoth IRA fucked around with this message at 20:30 on Jun 29, 2022 |
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MK-Ultramarathon posted:Was there someone trying to make an argument online at one point that using "y'all" was... appropriation or something? I feel like I remember seeing some takes on Twitter around those lines. Yeah this was a thing. That incident boiled down to ostensibly well meaning but also completely ignorant "allies" not understanding that there are substantial overlaps between southern American dialects and AAVE for obvious historical reasons.
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AITA for throwing them out of a house that we own. Son and future In-Laws decide to exclude his family from wedding. They thought son owned the house not us.quote:My wife and I bought a four bedroom house in PA that my son lives in. Our son went to College in PA and wanted to stay in the area. So we bought the house as a second home, we live in NJ and commute into Manhattan for work. We figured that he would have a place to live and we could visit every so often and spend some quality time together.
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Mmmm, that's a tasty hand
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sephiRoth IRA posted:AITA for getting dressed in a seperate cubicle and not together with my husband OP posted:4 months, but this started on our honeymoon... guy's not wasting any time, i see
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Foo Diddley posted:guy's not wasting any time, i see Hahaha holy poo poo, poor lady, I hope she can get
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ad090 posted:AITA for throwing them out of a house that we own. Son and future In-Laws decide to exclude his family from wedding. They thought son owned the house not us. Lol Well, I'm sure the son, his fiance and her family will continue to have a happy and long-lasting relationship at least
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sephiRoth IRA posted:Hahaha holy poo poo, poor lady, I hope she can get Oh on a 4 month marriage there's not going to be a divorce settlement that's anything other than 'you get what you put in'.
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ad090 posted:AITA for throwing them out of a house that we own. Son and future In-Laws decide to exclude his family from wedding. They thought son owned the house not us. Nouveau riche fight! Nouveau riche fight! (OP are clearly not the assholes but LOL at this being about the second home they bought so that their son could live in PA rent-free)
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Absurd Alhazred posted:Nouveau riche fight! Nouveau riche fight! Well, not gonna live rent free for very long
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ad090 posted:AITA for throwing them out of a house that we own. Son and future In-Laws decide to exclude his family from wedding. They thought son owned the house not us. quote:Once we get back to NJ and they calmed down they tell me that our son and his fiancé along with her family don't want us at the wedding. According to what I was told "We're not their kind of people". I was livid, I called my son and asked him WTH this was about. He tells me that her family feel that we are not good enough and will embarrass them at a family wedding and that we are all uninvited from the wedding. Kind of curious what that means. The kinds of people who can afford to buy multiple houses and work in Manhattan aren't likely to be typical 'blue-collar' workers that are stereotyped as embarrassments. It sounds like either a race/politics thing and there's no way of knowing who's in the right, but the whole in-laws moving in before the wedding is weird as poo poo so they clearly aren't a 0.1% rich family looking down on the typical upper class.
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ad090 posted:AITA for throwing them out of a house that we own. Son and future In-Laws decide to exclude his family from wedding. They thought son owned the house not us. The son is so dumb I wonder how he manages to maintain breathing to keep his body alive. Good god.
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ad090 posted:AITA for throwing them out of a house that we own. Son and future In-Laws decide to exclude his family from wedding. They thought son owned the house not us. lmao i wonder if the son is "their kind of people" anymore
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