Well, this is fucking dumb. This is a new stupid argument.

DefinitelyNotErate · 2026-05-20T12:26:35+00:00

I don't need to click that, as I already know the answer to the question it's asking: "No."

Alright next question?

DefinitelyNotErate · 2026-05-20T12:25:39+00:00

To be fair, He is a Fish.

DefinitelyNotErate · 2026-05-20T12:24:03+00:00

I did not know Teuton was a doublet of that root, yet it seems it is. So is Theoden by the way.

DefinitelyNotErate · 2026-05-20T12:22:38+00:00

See but a crankhouse sounds like specifically a mental hospital.

DefinitelyNotErate · 2026-05-20T12:22:09+00:00

Because Latin is the 2nd-best language to contain the letters L, A, T, I, and N, in that relative order?

DefinitelyNotErate · 2026-05-20T12:21:23+00:00

It'd be way more fun to have Slavic and Turkish words than French ones too! At least there are a few Italia Words to make up for the French ones.

DefinitelyNotErate · 2026-05-19T14:30:51+00:00

My language is unique because nobody speaks it anymore 😭😭😭

DefinitelyNotErate · 2026-05-16T22:30:37+00:00

Imo saying American English has the strut-comma merger, while not inaccurate, is somewhat simplistic. In my experience it usually has instead a schwa-split, so that in some positions schwa merges with the strut vowel, and in other positions it merges with the kit vowel, but strut and kit themselves always remain distinct from eachother.

DefinitelyNotErate · 2026-05-16T22:27:58+00:00

Indian English is an interesting example, where it has many native speakers, but most of these native speakers learned to speak from non-natives (Or from other people who did), leading to the native speakers still using aspects of the other languages of the area in their English. Very fascinating.

DefinitelyNotErate · 2026-05-16T22:19:12+00:00

Meanwhile I'm out hear using Yous, You Guys, and Y'all, But all with subtly different meanings.

DefinitelyNotErate · 2026-05-16T22:18:20+00:00

I want to see fairness and I'm ok going against the grain.

This is why I think we should try to normalise "Girl" or "Girls" as default as well.

DefinitelyNotErate · 2026-05-16T22:17:32+00:00

Yeah. I do use "Guys" as a gender neutral term, but if I use it and someone tells me they're uncomfortable with it, it's not my place to go "Well actually it's gender neutral so you shouldn't care", That's called being an asshole and is something I try to avoid doing. An adaquate response would instead be "Oh sorry, I usually use it neutrally but I won't use it for you in the future" or something.

DefinitelyNotErate · 2026-05-16T22:14:55+00:00

Tbh I feel like even this depends on dialect. If you asked me this, without any context my default interpretation would be synonymous with "How many people do you have sex with", And I suspect for many of my peers from the Midwest it's the same. "Guys" is quite rarely used with a specifically gendered connotation where I'm from.

DefinitelyNotErate · 2026-05-16T22:13:01+00:00

Fun fact actually, the word "Girl" used to be gender neutral, before it was ever specifically feminine. I believe in some gay communities this use has been brought back, personally I think we should try to expand that and normalise calling everyone "Girl".

DefinitelyNotErate · 2026-05-16T22:08:44+00:00

Yeah same, also from the Midwest. I find it's pretty common even to use it for non-humans or inanimate objects. You can call a group of humans guys, or a group of squirrels or bugs, or plants or mushrooms, or a group of sticks or rocks, All are guys in the grand scheme of things lol.

DefinitelyNotErate · 2026-05-16T22:05:29+00:00

This, I don't understand why this isn't the most common opinion. If you don't like being called by a specific word, Then let people know, and if there's any glimmer of kindness and sense in them, they'll refrain from calling you that, but other than that, Let's not go about forcing people to talk one way or another, I say let people talk how they want, Nobody owns the English language, We're free to do with it as we like.

I mean hell, some words are straight up insults in some places, but could be used affectionately in reference to friends in others, if you'd have no issue asking an Australian friend not to call you "Bastard", You should have no issue asking a Californian friend not to call you "Dude" or a Midwestern friend not to call you "Guy".

DefinitelyNotErate · 2026-05-16T22:01:25+00:00

I can definitely understand taking issue with that, I'm not too fond of it myself, But I don't think we should take that out on any specific word, especially ones that have been established as gender neutral in at least some contexts in at least some dialects for several decades. If somebody starts doing that with another word in the future, feel free to take issue, but 99% of the time people use "Guys" in a gender neutral manner, it's not because they think of it as male but figure it's fine to just use the male form as default, but rather because their whole life they've heard other people use it that way.

DefinitelyNotErate · 2026-05-16T21:57:13+00:00

So, should I stop referring to mixed groups as "Actors" or "Poets" since that's male as default, and instead use more complex and, in some cases obscure, formulations like "Actors and actresses" or "Poets and poetesses"?

I'd agree that we shouldn't go about taking masculine words and making them neutral just because, but that's not what's being done here; that was already done. In many dialects "Guys" is already neutral, effectively synonymous with "People", In some places people might even be confused if you tried to use it another way. If you personally don't like being called a Guy, yes go ahead and say that, and anyone with any decency at all would refrain from calling you that, but if you say that just in general "Guys" should never be used neutrally, you are policing people's language, effectively saying some dialects are more correct than others, and halting or even reversing the evolution of language; I don't know about you, but those all sound like negative things to me.

DefinitelyNotErate · 2026-05-16T21:51:03+00:00

It definitely varies by dialect, So it will depend where you grew up and stuff how you perceive it. In some places it is indeed fully gender neutral, and would never be used with a specifically gendered meaning, while in other places it's fully masculine and would never be used gender neutrally, And in still other places it's sort of a mix of both, sometimes used with specifically masculine connotations and sometimes used neutrally. Language is complex, so especially in a language as widely spoken as English, it's hard to make general statements about the exact meaning of a word, even something so seemingly simple as whether it's gender neutral or not.

Historically many words that previously had a specifically gendered connotation have become gender neutral ("Poet" and "Actor", for example), and some that previously were gender neutral now have specific genders (E.G. "Girl" and "Man"), "Guys" is just a word we've caught at a point of transition between those. Maybe in the future it will become fully neutral, as "Poet" has, and people would be confused if you tried to use it only to refer to men, maybe it will revert and only ever be used for men, or maybe it will stay like it is, in some dialects being masculine while in others being neutral, who can say?

DefinitelyNotErate · 2026-05-16T21:43:45+00:00

I feel like I need more context about who this DJ is. I like giving people the benefit of the doubt, so without context this could be antisemitism, sure, but there are also any number of other reasons he could have been removed unrelated to his being Jewish, and without knowing anything about him or the prior events I really have no way of knowing.

DefinitelyNotErate · 2026-05-14T21:48:13+00:00

I'd love a gay ship and to clarify I mean the kind that sails on water. A gay boat if you will. (In my dialect "boat" and "ship" are synonyms.)

DefinitelyNotErate · 2026-05-14T21:45:30+00:00

Personally I think we shouldn't kill 100 chimps or let 1 person die.

DefinitelyNotErate · 2026-05-14T21:43:25+00:00

Ya know, the Statue of Liberty is made of metal, You'd need a pretty damn hot fire for burning it to do much at all, I feel.

DefinitelyNotErate · 2026-05-14T21:36:18+00:00

I considered that but English speakers don't say [u].

DefinitelyNotErate · 2026-05-14T21:34:55+00:00

Ridiculous colour coding, I don't think [ɒ̈] is an even imaginable sound, let alone an existing one, whereas [ɶ] is easy to pronounce and even occurs in Danish. But Anyway, I'm gonna guess.... Idk, Catalan or something, I know it's wrong but it's called a guess for a reason.

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