I wish, with every fiber of my being, that this is not real
Pronouns are a basic part of language. Getting rid of them makes communication way harder. Unless you speak Spanish, I guess.
Do you think we don’t use pronouns in Spanish? Because we absolutely do.
Nosotros
I know they exist, it’s simply the fact that they’re not usually required in daily speech, since verb conjugation gives the context of the pronoun anyway.
For subject pronouns, object pronouns are obligatory
Don’t objectify pronouns, weirdo.
Spanish pronouns are used mainly in the plain.
(Side note: I thought the original quote was something like “the rain in Spain falls mostly on the Spaniards,” but I can’t find anything to support that. Only today did I even learn that it was from a song.)
What song exactly?
Apparently, “The Rain in Spain.” (To be clear, I would not have known that before looking it up to verify the quote.)
The original lyric I was parodying was “the rain in Spain falls mainly on the plain.” (Which, again, I would have gotten wrong if I hadn’t researched it.)
edit: After a few minutes reviewing YouTube videos, apparently it was prose recited by the protagonist of “My Fair Lady,” the movie from which that song came. Eventually she gained confidence via that song.
I don’t know, I previously lacked context for the quote, but after watching a relevant video I realize I’ve seen a parody of it in Family Guy.
And My Fair Lady is a remake based on the 1938 Pygmalion. I actually like the 1938 version better. All and all, Pygmalion is a play written by George Bernard Shaw back in 1912/1913.
Time to check it out.
I added more context to my original response. Hope you enjoy it!
Thanks.
Them idiots
That’s far more than mildly infuriating. I’d consider this child abuse.
I hope this kid escapes this clearly toxic situation.
Wound’t going entirely gender neutral be progressive?
That’s what THEY want you to think.
There are pronouns in the fucking bible
that doesn’t count though. the bible got grandfathered in
I wonder how he feels about you saying that.
It’s even more surprising that there are pronoun in the regular “non-fucking” Bible
Lol, wow. Sorry you had to deal with that.
Best troll: buy him a 5th grade grammar book for his bday/Xmas.
I fully expect JD Vance to use an elementary school pronoun worksheet to suggest drag queens are grooming children.
That guy is voting. Probably for the Nazi.
Probably? Probably at least twice.
That guy failed English literacy. Though… Honestly… Not surprising for a right wing American.
Literacy is bad mmmm’kay?
/s (obviously)
Seems like everything is a pronoun these days. Anything can be a pronoun too. Could I even be one?
Mr. Rogers says you can do anything you want if you use your imagination.
Also
theseand one in that context.Edit: these is functioning as an adjective there
I was going to make a joke anti-pronoun sub where we just talk about whatever while refusing to use pronouns until I looked up the list of pronouns and saw how painful that would be.
Pretty sure pronouns didnt exist for him in school because he dropped out before they taught it to him
I don’t know, have you seen how they are teaching math these days?
This liberal agenda is getting out of hand!! /s
They even use Arabic numerals! Shariah state!
We’d been using Arabic numerals forever. Pretty sure your parent is complaining (tongue in cheek) about New Math, because us millennial parents learned multiplication by memorizing a times table and we think that’s the only way to do it.
It makes sense, in terms of a long term education approach, because it teaches the other properties of arithmetic (like distributive or associative or cumulative) much earlier on, which IMO makes more difficult arithmetic far more approachable later on.
But it is weird as hell if you aren’t primed on it. They really should make a ditto for parents when they start doing it.
TIL grammar is an info-hazard.
