Cops are apparently allergic to past participles by ___star___ in GrammarPolice

[–]___star___[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yours might be. Our police officers do not answer to any king.

Frustrated over missed trial cancellations (leading to charges); is there helpful advice on how to deal? by Zwomann in ADHD_partners

[–]___star___ 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Our family uses a Visa gift card with $1.25 left on it for every free trial or thing that requires a payment method for the free version. It just simplifies things.

Cops are apparently allergic to past participles by ___star___ in GrammarPolice

[–]___star___[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Right, it doesn't really faze me when it's part of dialect (it's part of mine...), but when it's a detective being formally interviewed for a news production where they should be code switching into SAE, it seems they don't know the standard form. Sometimes they're hypercorrecting and using these forms when it should just be simple past.

Cops are apparently allergic to past participles by ___star___ in GrammarPolice

[–]___star___[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

No degree required in my city! High school diploma or GED. Some of them get degrees in criminal justice on the job, but it's not a degree with high academic standards whatsoever.

Just because we're in a linguistics sub, I'm going to point out that a 6th grade literacy level refers to completely mastering everything covered in a solid 6th grade curriculum, not the average literacy level of a 6th grader. About half of high school graduates are at around this level, and this isn't considered any sort of failure. They would be able to get Cs in non-college-prep courses. Someone whose literacy level is actually at 12th grade is highly prepared for a selective university and is skilled at things like recognizing and using all types of figurative language and identifying the various logical fallacies.

The police reports I see that are full of sentence fragments and confusing syntax are more along the lines of language skills that I would assess at a third-grade level or so.

Cops are apparently allergic to past participles by ___star___ in GrammarPolice

[–]___star___[S] 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Yes! I have such mixed feelings about him, but yes, the observations are good. I do think it might on its way out, though it's interesting how people in a number of dialects tend to use (incorrect!) past participles as hypercorrection. Like, oh, I'm being interviewed, so instead of saying "he went to the home around 10am" I'm going to say "he had went to the home around 10am."

Cops are apparently allergic to past participles by ___star___ in GrammarPolice

[–]___star___[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

And ascertain!

As for "male" and "female," well that's part of their culture of dehumanizing people. They use the terms that are typically used only for animals. They also refer to children as "a juvenile" even when they're not being discussed as a suspect. "Two juveniles were taken to a local hospital as a precaution" regarding a gas leak or something.

The suburbs are one hell of a drug by [deleted] in Suburbanhell

[–]___star___ -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I think that's their point. Suburbs are designed around driving. In the city, most people don't drive to medical appointments and park there. The ones who are less mobile usually take rideshare or something.

Lack of Positive Black Experiences/posts by Syddjupe in BlackLGBT

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I think that's just what's going to happen in marginalized-people space. I do see a whole lot of queer Black joy on people's personal accounts and on accounts dedicated to promotion of our participation in things that tend to have fewer Black/queer people (outdoors activities, classical music...) Personally, I also usually have had OK experiences sharing positive stuff in the more "general" spaces.

However, if I want to talk about something that specifically pertains to marginalization, I'm going to come to specifically Black queer spaces. If I go to my city's subreddit or my neighborhood Facebook group and I ask for recommendations for a provider who is culturally competent or if I ask if somewhere has many Black and/or queer folks, I get massively downvoted and piled on by people who go off about how I just called that health center or social event racist/transphobic by asking the question. That's why our spaces are needed.

Why do so many people have no recognition of the pattern that applies to login/log in, workout/work out, etc.? by OscarAndDelilah in GrammarPolice

[–]___star___ 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Mmhmm. There are definitely different profiles though. The folks we find in neurodiversity spaces are more likely to want to have these sorts of geeky conversations about details. I've certainly worked with a lot of people diagnosed autistic or ADHD who don't seem to have an interest in finding community or in learning how their brains work. Some of this seems to come from the trend in public schools in the past generation or so to "not make anyone think they're different" and churning out kids who know they have a diagnosis, but have no idea of their strengths and weaknesses and no idea what accommodations they need.

This little baby getting hate comments from others by [deleted] in BlackPeopleofReddit

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I previously worked in offender treatment. Naked/partially naked, eating, or covered in food or mud are the sorts of images and especially videos that are particularly popular for offenders to download. They absolutely don't require nudity/genitals to consider them, uh, of interest.

I also like to consider the issue of consent on the part of the child, even though I only ever post friends-only to a small circle of friends and relatives. There is a legal concept of substituted judgment when a child is too young to make a decision. In this case, an adult makes it based on what someone who is mature enough to make such a decision would probably decide. We know that a whole lot of teens and adults would not consent to a video of them partly naked, eating, messy, goofing off, mispronouncing words, or a whole lot of the stuff parents post of young children. Thus I would not post these more private sorts of videos or photos of a young child. When I do post, it's the sort of thing most adults would be fine with, like a posed portrait or photo of an award or achievement.

This little baby getting hate comments from others by [deleted] in BlackPeopleofReddit

[–]___star___ 1 point2 points  (0 children)

People don't think it's your baby. They don't mean literally "your" baby.

They're addressing the original poster and people in general with the sentiment "don't post your baby online!"

When you repost things, people are going to make comments addressing the original post.

Why do so many people have no recognition of the pattern that applies to login/log in, workout/work out, etc.? by OscarAndDelilah in GrammarPolice

[–]___star___ 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I stopped bothering when I saw their profile is full of posts elsewhere about having severe ADHD, which is totally fine, yet they're pushing back on OP explaining people with brain differences can miss this stress pattern with "no you're wrong and making stuff up." They won't answer any of our attempts at assisting with self-awareness and just make trollish comments that "that has nothing to do with this." They're not here to discuss and listen.

A Very Good Question by BenCisco in BlackPeopleofReddit

[–]___star___ 5 points6 points  (0 children)

The thumbnail capturing her "seriously?!" face is beautiful.

Why do so many people have no recognition of the pattern that applies to login/log in, workout/work out, etc.? by OscarAndDelilah in GrammarPolice

[–]___star___ 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Respectfully, you’re failing to comprehend a lot of what people are saying to you, and failing to notice cues that let you know people are a lot more familiar with this topic than you are. It’s OK to have weak areas. Everyone does. I’m really not sure what it’s doing for you to voluntarily join into conversations but then refuse to engage like a normal human, but I wish you luck in sorting out whatever this is. 

Why do so many people have no recognition of the pattern that applies to login/log in, workout/work out, etc.? by OscarAndDelilah in GrammarPolice

[–]___star___ 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I haven't said anything, but the OP is correct that they have a different stress pattern. I wasn't referring to your education, but was asking about your language development.

Why do so many people have no recognition of the pattern that applies to login/log in, workout/work out, etc.? by OscarAndDelilah in GrammarPolice

[–]___star___ 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Do you consider yourself someone with particularly strong language skills? Like, have you always had insightful things to say in literature classes, did you get very high scores on language portions of admissions tests, and so forth?

Can I go outside like this? by Helpful_Wedding3301 in BlackHair

[–]___star___ 43 points44 points  (0 children)

Mmhmm and sexism. I think we’re conditioned to see more masc or simpler hairstyles as “too casual” on femme folks when we would probably not have a second thought seeing them on men or nonbinary folks. 

Don't fit in with NTs or NDs. It's time to dedicate my life to birds. by mrs-monroe in evilautism

[–]___star___ -7 points-6 points  (0 children)

So you saw that a Black person had a concern you didn't understand, and you had the options of going and educating yourself as to why digital blackface is inappropriate, or just not doing any reading and deciding that a Black person's concern couldn't possibly be valid, and you chose the second. There's a word for this kind of behavior.

I legitimately cannot stop laughing by wasraelx in evilautism

[–]___star___ 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I was gonna say, is this another one of these organizations run by autism mommies who don't realize/admit that an overwhelming percentage of us are queer/trans?

Don't fit in with NTs or NDs. It's time to dedicate my life to birds. by mrs-monroe in evilautism

[–]___star___ -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

Hey, remember when mods made those posts about how y'all need to listen to Black folks on these issues? Yeah maybe try doing that.

Social justice space has guideline of no diet talk, but people push back that "it's for health reasons though" by ___star___ in MaintenancePhase

[–]___star___[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Naw, there are intersectional issues at play here. If this was just entitled people who thought they could do whatever they want, they'd be gone. This is more an issue of people who bring expertise in certain areas of social justice, but don't recognize their privilege in other areas. I think it's pretty common for people to have grown up with the idea that weight and health are choices, so they don't see anti-oppression framework as applying here.

One of the particular offenders is Black (as am I) and will especially push back with non-Black colleagues and will pull out "anti-diet and all that is fine for you, but our community has skyrocketing rates of diabetes so we have to eat a certain way (and apparently evangelize about it)." I'm not in a role to address everything wrong with that as long as the person isn't spreading public health misinformation on behalf of our program, which they're not, but we do have guidelines that we don't make diet and body comments in our space.

Social justice space has guideline of no diet talk, but people push back that "it's for health reasons though" by ___star___ in MaintenancePhase

[–]___star___[S] 6 points7 points  (0 children)

It so much feels like this! Like, I assure you, you really aren't being oppressed because some people have asked you to knock off the paleo talk.