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Post by selimthegrim » Fri, Jan 20, 2023, 6:36 PM UTC

thaumasiotes wrote: post #359

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This is downvoted, but the homepage really does say "hello i am maia arson crimew (it/she)". I'd feel uncomfortable referring to anyone as "it" though, as there are some connotations with that :-/

> the homepage really does say "hello i am maia arson crimew (it/she)". > I'd feel uncomfortable referring to anyone as "it" though In Five Children and It (published in 1902), the "It" of the title is a magical creature. However, one of the characters is a human baby who is always referred to with the pronoun "it". I glossed right over that reading the book as a child, but I found it pretty disturbing rereading as a…

Post by kazinator » Fri, Jan 20, 2023, 6:37 PM UTC

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Why do we only get to choose our pronouns? I want to choose my prepositions: in, up and above. Also, my conjunctions are: however, moreover, and whereupon.

Because we already arbitrarily assign different pronouns to different people, usually based solely on their appearance, and there is no harm in letting people pick which type of gendered (or less gendered, in the binary sense) association they'd rather have.

Post by selimthegrim » Fri, Jan 20, 2023, 6:40 PM UTC

eesmith wrote: post #474

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You was always both singular and plural, but in the singular form it was the formal second person pronoun, whereas thou was the second person singular informal pronoun; it's the same as the difference between du/Sie in German, tu/vous in French, or je/u in Dutch. This is why the King James bible uses thou: it's intended to feel more accessible to its readers with a friendly tone.

> You was always both singular and plural https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/You says the singular "you" didn't occur until Modern English, and the singular form 'ye' died out in the 1600s with early Modern English. The King James Bible, published 1611, uses "ye" as the singular form of the formal "you", as in "Ye shall know them by their fruits." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_James_Version further notes: ] In a peri…

Post by forgetbook » Fri, Jan 20, 2023, 7:09 PM UTC

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Dylan16807 wrote: post #393

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I think it's valid to argue that you shouldn't be able to put some of commas, quotes, and newlines inside fields at all. And comma versus semicolon. But that doesn't extend to using backslash escapes in something that's legitimately trying to be CSV. That's someone getting confused and implementing a mix of data formats, or trying to be clever and making an extended CSV format.

It’s valid to argue that, but that means you can’t use CSV for many real-world data sets. That, in turn, means you almost cannot use CSV in any robust solution. Even if, today, your input doesn’t have commas, quotes or newlines, can you guarantee it won’t tomorrow, next year, etc?

Post by OneLeggedCat » Fri, Jan 20, 2023, 7:32 PM UTC

lamontcg wrote: post #308

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She had only shared it with known journalists that she had a relationship at time of writing, and seems pretty bright. Hypothetically she might get scammed by someone and irresponsibly disclose but let's not condemn her for it yet.

You have an incredibly naive understanding of the propensity for people to divulge secrets. "Three can keep a secret if two of them are dead"