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.
What if my preferred pronouns are to not have any?
None/use name seems to be an option aswell
How should people refer to you in the third person? It’s okay to use one’s name as the preferred pronoun.
A name is a noun, not a pronoun, but the site seems to allow “none/use name” as an option.
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.
Foggy is confused 🤔
please do not refer to me
Shadow the Hedgehog.
That is odd. I usually prefer when people talk with me instead of about me.
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.
Don’t be sorry but I still don’t want to be talked about.
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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.
Sounds like a front for disliking trans people
Every person on the face of this planet deserves to be happy. Besides that, nothing to add.
Whatever you say.
Reminds me of a woman i know.
SheThat woman could totally have written this. Basically, our conversation after months is still me trying to learnherthat womans language. :-D
Many people don’t wish to be doxxed online. Nobody needs to share something private.
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I’m sorry, I don’t understand what you mean in relation to what I said.
Were talking pronouns as part of the sign up process.
@qyron@sopuli.xyz says that @qyron@sopuli.xyz would rather like to be tagged and be part of the conversation, instead of having people talk behind @qyron@sopuli.xyz’s back.
It’s likely meant to be seen as a witty remark, and not a statement. :)
Why is being witty the default stance, instead of an honest statement?
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.
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.
Id rather you just stop talking altogether
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.
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.
So it’s easier to say thoim/shlu instead of ekky?
Because what you said doesn’t make any sense if you were being serious.
No one’s talking about you
