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A certain species of gamer: Dungeons & Dragons games were better back in the day when we didn't have all this woke pronoun shit.
Blood & Magic, a licensed Dungeons & Dragons RTS published in 19-fucking-96, two years before the FIRST Baldur's Gate:
#gaming#video games#dungeons & dragons#d&d#baldur's gate#baldur's gate 3#pronouns#gender#politics#swearing
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Meanwhile, the UN - an organization with some branches that openly support Hamas and the Iranian regime - agreed to exclude women and women’s rights from a key UN conference at the Taliban’s request.
If we needed more proof that this organization is no better than its predecessor the Society of Nations, there we have it.
#politics#cowards#they can exclude women from a conference#and explain that men can be women at the same time#isn’t that wonderful#women should force their way in with pronouns pins#and see them have a nervous breakdown#feminism
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You're anti-antisemitism because you know there are good jews who don't deserve antisemitism. I am anti-antisemitism because I know no jew deserves antisemitism. We are not the same.
(what you also don't know is that you aren't anti-antisemitism)
#jumblr#jewish politics#antisemitism tw#personal thoughts tag#i only formatted it like this because of that meme that was popular#obligatory 'this is the impersonal you pronoun being used'#i didn't want to format it as 'youre not antisemitic...' because you would be antisemitic for thinking that actually lol#yes even that jew doesn't deserve antisemitism. even the one who's got some ugly opinions...#...because being treated like a person is not a reward for Good Behavior...#...minorities being treated like human beings is not a reward because we Proved Ourselves (even if you think that)
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https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTRW6ns6v/
-fae
#black lives matter#blm#black lives still matter#trans#trans rights are human rights#identity politics#neo pronouns
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The Saskatchewan government says schools must now seek parental consent when children under 16 want to change their names or pronouns.
Education Minister Dustin Duncan said Tuesday that the province wants to standardize pronoun and naming policies, as they varied from one school division to another.
A similar move earlier this year in New Brunswick was faced by intense opposition by LGBTQ groups.
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#cdnpoli#canada#canadian politics#canadian news#canadian#saskatchewan#transphobia#queerphobia#children's rights#transphobia tw#queerphobia tw#education#dustin duncan#conservatives#pronouns#name change#name changes
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what i like especially about the pronouns in the goblin emperor is that this language doesn't just have the T-V distinction (aka informal vs. formal second-person pronouns, in this case 'thou' vs. 'you'), it also has informal and formal first-person pronouns. having BOTH of these distinctions in the same language lets you fine-tune your tone by mixing and matching. with only one axis of formality, when you use informal pronouns, are you being familiar in an intimate way, or in an insolent or dismissive way? when you use formal pronouns, are you being polite or standoffish? you can't tell just from the pronouns; there's ambiguity. but a language where you can use a formal first-person pronoun in the same sentence as an informal second-person pronoun allows you to distance yourself (via the formal first) while also being familiar (via the informal second), thereby achieving the conversational tenor known to linguists as Fuck Thee Specifically.
#just kidding i don't know what linguists call that tenor. or any tenors. i'm not totally positive what a tenor even is#but i can't let that stop me from writing a jokey post on tumblr dot com#register is a very interesting area of linguistics that i know very little about#so i'm probably revealing the depths of my vast ignorance here to all the sociolinguists who surely hang on my every word#but i've always thought of the formal/informal pronoun thing as being about two things: intimacy-distance & rudeness-politeness#and of course you can usually tell from context whether a formal pronoun is meant to indicate distance or politeness#(plus distance and politeness are related to each other (to various degrees depending on culture))#but it seems like it would be cool to have a built-in alignment chart of sorts just for pronoun combos#instead of prep jock nerd goth...why not try intimate self-effacing polite superior?#the goblin emperor#pronouns#register#sociolinguistics#my posts#f#anyway i know i said i wasn't going to reread the goblin emperor...but guess what. lol#and i edited my tags on that earlier post but fyi the language DOES distinguish between plural and formal singular pronouns#i had said i thought it used the same pronouns for plural and formal but i just wasn't paying close enough attention#so anyway i just reread the part where maia is talking to setheris in formal first and informal second#and you can see setheris going ohhh shit. oh shit oh shit oh shit#i'm in biiiiiig trouble#you sure are dude. that's the Time to Grovel signal#it's interesting because at the very beginning of the book when i first saw the formal first used i just thought it was the royal we#because i knew the main character was supposed to be royalty#but then EVERYONE was doing it. so it's not the royal we it's just the formal we#however. this does make me realize that the way the royal we would function in a language that retains the t-v distinction#is the same way i'm describing here. it's just reserving that particular tone (i'm better than you and am displeased with you)#for royalty only. which makes sense given royalty's whole deal
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Unsurprisingly, people are already being fucking weird about Mizu's gender.
Headcanons are all well and good, but maybe we shouldn't be so eager to apply modern Western gender politics and terms to a character whose identity is so tied to the time, place, and circumstances in which she exists.
Please remember that Mizu was forced to present as male for her own safety and agency. Please remember that allowing others to see her as a man and call her he/him is not a choice; it's protection; it's a means to an end. Until we see Mizu talk about her gender in further detail, that's all the context we have.
Don't project what you want to see onto her and then treat it as fact.
#Blue Eye Samurai#BES#Svar rants#also as an enby who doesn't use they it super rubs me the wrong way to see people insisting on calling her they#even if she *is* genderqueer or nonbinary (and we don't know that she is) that does not mean that they automatically applies#and if you think that it does please go back to Gender 101 do not pass go do not collect $100#on top of that there's the whole issue of applying English pronoun politics to a Japanese speaker#like I'm begging y'all to consider cultural and historical context before y'all go gallivanting off with your readings of Mizu's gender#taking a baseball bat to a hornet's nest with this one I know but I'm Bothered
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OUR PRONOUNS
#anarcho socialism#anarchocommunism#anarchism#anti capitalism#left wing#communism#eat the rich#opinion#politics#revolution#marxist leninist#marxist#pronouns#lgbtqia#lgbtqplus#lgbtq
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naninyu naglalaro nga lang po sila 🥺
#kapsyon translesyon: “fuck you i told you that they're just playing 🥺” (polite form)#there's a polite way to say “you” in tagalog but its just the plural ones. like if you're asking who's knockin#you say politely “sino po sila” (who-polite particle-they (plural) even if its just 1 person#impolite or angry sounding is “sino ka (ba)” (who-you-(question particle) - “who the hell are you?”)#also tagalog 3rd-person pronoun (siya) is technically they? but it encompasses he and she as well.#nito/ito used as a pronoun? just means “this thing” (ie. Nawala ni Isa ang kaniyang hikaw kaya naghahanap ito ng bago)#“Isa lost her earrings so (she/this thing) is looking for a new one”#sorry this turned into a tagalog lesson i love 2 talk abt my native language#can i be honest with you i could not stop smiling while drawing this . i love fighting and stabbing and punching#dungeon meshi fanart#dungeon meshi#dunmeshi#toshiro nakamoto#laios touden#laishuro#laishiro
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I loved this episode so much 🥹 might write up another post about the emotional core of it and why I think it's the best ep. 11 I've ever seen, considering how much people love to bemoan the 'episode 11 curse' (which I think is just setting yourself up for disappointment). But right now, I'm just here to clarify some of the Thai, as per usual~
Disclaimer: not a native Thai speaker, still learning 🙏
Taking advantage
Aylin: มนุษย์พี่นิสัยไม่ดี ฉวยโอกาส /ma noot phi ni sai mai dee. chuay oh gaat/ = [That's] bad behavior, human senior. Seizing the opportunity. Luna, after getting kissed: นี่มันฉวยโอกาสกันนี่ /nee man chuay oh gaat gan nee/ = This is seizing the opportunity!
ฉวยโอกาส /chuay oh gaat/ is not the same as 'taking advantage of sb.' aka exploiting sb./sth. It means to grab/take a chance or seize an opportunity when it presents itself. In that sense, it's more taking advantage of a situation.
Love
ตั้งใจเรียนนะน้อง รัก��ะ /dtang jai riian na, nong. rak na/ = Study attentively, nong. Love [you]! รักรักรัก รักๆๆๆๆ /rak x8/ = Love [you] x8 จากพระจันทร์ของน้อง <3 /jaak phra jan khaawng nong/ = from your Moon <3 -> พระจันทร์ /phra jan/ = the Moon
The Sun
สัญญานะ พระอาทิตย์ /san yaa na? phra aa tit/ = Promise? Sun? -> พระอาทิตย์ /phra aa thit/ = the Sun
#23.5 degrees#23.5 spoilers#aylinluna#ongsasun#thai gl#local woman harps on about linguistics#i never brought this up but last ep. aylin wai'd the monk and spoke politely and respectfully to him including pronouns and particles!#and this ep. she wai'd and greeted her phis politely and also called her relatives aunt and uncle (not 'human [...]')#she's really trying y'all :)#local woman harps on about 23.5
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The implications of this bill for transgender teachers and students in South Carolina are profound. Teachers would be forced to change their titles to those of their assigned sex at birth. Likewise, teachers would be forced to “out” themselves as transgender if they wished to stay in compliance with the law.
Moreover, students would receive instruction portraying transgender identity as “incorrect” or “false,” severely impacting transgender students’ well-being.
When responding to the bill, a local pediatrician, Dr. Michael O’Brien, offered the bill’s sponsor his insight into the bill, stating that it is a “cruel bill designed specifically to harm trans South Carolinians” and offering to discuss the bill with him.
Representative Pace responded by telling him that it is “cruel” to affirm transgender people and that instead, he should “repent” and hope that the “lord shows [him] mercy.”
This is not the first time Representative Pace has weaponized the powers of the state against transgender people. Previously, Representative Pace announced that his caucus successfully shut down the Medical University of South Carolina’s gender clinic for trans youth.
#thinking about what we're up against next year makes me ill#south carolina#transphobia#pronoun bans#anti trans bills#anti trans legislation#politics#christian fascism#christofascism#religion tw#not a positivity post#not positive
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My unpopular opinion is that in languages with grammatical gender like french, it does make sense for Murderbot to be referred to by whatever pronoun is usually used for robots or constructs. (In french, therefore, grammatical masculine.) Because there are no traditional « it » pronouns in these languages for objects, and while there are neo-pronouns, they are things one must choose for themselves. Do you honestly think MB actually spent time thinking about its pronouns?! No it didn’t. On forms it picks « non-applicable ». When people ask it what pronouns they should use, its honest opinion is « why do you even need to talk about me. Just don’t fucking do that. Don’t think about me either. Just fucking stop perceiving me altogether! »
Thinking about what pronouns to use probably makes it way more uncomfortable than letting people call it what they’ve already been calling it. Making a conscious choice about its identity? And telling other people about it??? No thanks bye, it’s just gonna walk into the ocean now, see you never.
Lbr it probably thinks the only bots that get fancy pronouns are comfort units, and the pronouns are probably shoved into them by humans same as everything else. MB would meet a bot using a neopronoun and it would wish it could barf. Because in a language like french, he/him and she/her, when applied to objects, ARE fulfilling the function of the english « it ». Nobody is saying the table is a woman or related to feminity in any way outside of stand-up comedy; when it comes to objects grammatical gender really has fuckall to do with human gender even if we use the same words. Even animal species names have grammatical gender and everyone gets that there are male and female turtles even if the word « turtle » is a female word, it’s not that confusing.
(I know this is strange when your language has different pronouns for people and for objects, but understand that english uses the same word to indicate if I’m addressing one or many people, and that is confusing to me.)
TL;DR; stop harassing international fans for not getting the correct MB pronoun in english right off the bat. Yes in english calling it « he » or « her » or « them » is upsetting because it’s projecting an identity unto it. But same goes for trying to get a foreign language translation to use a pronoun intended to express or showcase an identity (or even a lack of one!). Murderbot has not thought about it this hard, refuses to think about it this hard -> and that is its only canon accurate gender identity.
#the murderbot diaries#taking a bat to an hornet’s nest there but I said what I said#I go by she/her because that’s the default people use for me even tho my own gender identity is also#ugh I would sincerely prefer not to have to deal with this think about it or even be perceived#and I would be hella pissed if a book of my life came out and people got into fights about my pronouns#trying to assign me the most politically accurate agender pronoun possible#when my own choice has always been specifically to let people call me the default because idc#and I don’t want to be identified by any identifier that might indicate I do care#and using a different pronoun even if its a gender neutral one is a CHOICE!#it does indicate a preference! and caring about it enough to pick a word and tell people about it!!!#Murderbot didn’t pick IT that is specifically the point!#it was used for it and MB just kept going with that#I mean imagine it if wrote down a different pronoun on its ID form one day and someone actually called it that#it would set itself on fire#its discomfort at having made a personal choice and the personal choice being respected would be off the charts#maybe it a later book after hella character development but I just don’t see it happening tbh#respect the agenders who just don’t want to get involved and use the pronoun equivalent of the default avatar that came with the account#PLEASE#that is all
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all Florida students will require written parental permission to use a nickname of any kind in school. Tommy and Charlie will be Thomas and Charlotte till they can get their permission slips back
also even when a parent gives a trans student permission to use a different name, teachers will not be obligated to use the correct pronouns for the student
So while one party is worried about climate change, housing prices, and keeping the world safe for Democracy, Governor Ron... I'm sorry, Ronald DeSantis is banning nicknames...
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As debate continues over policies requiring parental consent for youth under 16 to change their name or preferred pronouns in some schools, members of Canada’s LGBTQ2 community say such legislation could put some at risk of abuse, harassment or even homelessness.
The concerns come as Saskatchewan and New Brunswick recently put in place such laws.
When asked earlier this week about whether Ontario will implement similar policies, the province’s education minister said parents should be “fully involved” in “life-changing” decisions involving their children.
But some LGBTQ2 youth say it’s not always an easy conversation to have.
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#cdnpoli#canada#canadian politics#canadian news#canadian#ontario#new brunswick#saskatchewan#transphobia#trans rights#children's rights#childrens rights#transphobia tw#name changes#pronouns
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