• @[email protected]
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    151 year ago

    It’s part of the signing up process. I’ve seen people without them, but it’s very rare. There’s probably a grace period.

      • @[email protected]
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        51 year ago

        How should people refer to you in the third person? It’s okay to use one’s name as the preferred pronoun.

        • @BreadstickNinja
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          101 year ago

          A name is a noun, not a pronoun, but the site seems to allow “none/use name” as an option.

          • @foggy
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            51 year ago

            Foggy is confused 🤔

          • Ataraxia
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            21 year ago

            There are societies where not using one’s name is rude. In general it’s safe to just call one by name instead of dehumanize them with labels.

    • qyron
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      -221 year ago

      That is odd. I usually prefer when people talk with me instead of about me.

          • qyron
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            1 year ago

            Why is being witty the default stance, instead of an honest statement?

            • @[email protected]
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              51 year ago

              Writing out a person’s full name/tag every time you reference them is not practical (see my previous comment), so one wouldn’t give this as reason against third person references in a serious discussion.

              • qyron
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                -101 year ago

                If the genesis of the entire issue with chosen pronouns is about basic respect, personal convinience can take a back seat and we can adress a person by name.

                But then again, I’m often viewed as petty in my personal peeves.

                Better to just not talk about someone and instead just talk with the person.

                • @Grimy
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                  71 year ago

                  Really think hard about what you are saying. Next time you have a conversation, try mentioning no one else except the person you are talking to and yourself.

                  • qyron
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                    -91 year ago

                    Oh, don’t temp me.

                    It’s been probably very clear by this point that English is not my native language but I can, with a degree of effort, have a conversation about a third person by naming said individual and use “person”, “individual” and other similar terms to refer to the absent third party without need to resort to pronouns.

                    It takes some effort, the end result is a bit terse in english, but I can make it work.

                    But, to repeat myself, better to not talk about someone else but instead talk with said person.

                    Petty. But so satisfying.

                • @Huxleywaswrite
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                  21 year ago

                  Id rather you just stop talking altogether

      • @NeoNachtwaechter
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        I usually prefer when people talk with me instead of about me.

        Sorry if you didn’t want to know, but: you can’t get rich that way.

        • qyron
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          -61 year ago

          Don’t be sorry but I still don’t want to be talked about.

          • @[email protected]
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            61 year ago

            I’m talking about qyron right now, qyron won’t supply us with qyrons chosen pronoun and now I have to say qyron every damn time instead of a nice short common pronoun.

            Qyron is making things unnecessarily difficult and shitty. Don’t be like qyron.

            • Ataraxia
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              -21 year ago

              Many people don’t wish to be doxxed online. Nobody needs to share something private.

              • @[email protected]
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                Ahh yes of course I can’t believe I didn’t think of that! If I knew their pronoun preference I could almost attribute that to their registered gender, and that almost lowers my possible targets down to a mere 4,000,000,000.

                Phew that is some easy doxxin’

            • qyron
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              Yes! Now you get!

              I have to add this here because you just wrote a gold opportunity for me to mock myself. Can we have signatures in Lemmy? I would make the following as mine. Perhaps a little reviewed for shorter form.

              Here is qyron, the most obnoxious example of a person you can find, to the point where making anything and everything harder than necessary becomes a self defining characteristic.

              This is an individual that takes pride and pleasure of torturing others just to make a moot point on any front.

              Don’t be like this personality. Nobody deserves to be like so.