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Und Magd war damals noch ein neutraler Ausdruck
I inserted a comma to make my meaning more clear, I hope. I’m not a native speaker so sorry if it was ambiguous
When I was young, I was poor. But after decades of hard work, I’m not young anymore.
Actually it’s older than people think. Shakespeare used it for stuff like “Every knight grabbed their sword”, and even for talking about a specific person it’s not a new phenomenon to use singular they if the gender doesn’t matter (so I was told in a linguistics sub over on r*ddit when I insisted it was new)
The only new thing is that people say, it’s their prefered pronoun.
“The E makes the vowel say its name.”
The joke is that many, if not most, English dialects merge /ʌ/ with schwa but insist that the sounds are different because schwa is never stressed
Because free stuff and freedom are contradictions
2·1 year agoI always thought it’s funny to see such a spelling bot on linguistics themed subs where everyone was like “fck you descriptivist” and they were downvoted into oblivion
Twitter is happier without me.
No: I am happier without Twitter
I think since the last update (0.19) federating is buggy also with other instances.