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Honestly, I’m bi in a hetero relationship currently, and this would summon me like nothing else.
Except maybe masculine crying to Johnny Cash singing “Hurt.”
Non-binary crying to Janelle Monae singing Dirty Computer
Except maybe masculine crying to Johnny Cash singing “Hurt”.
Yea that’s got a totally different energy to it.
You can have it all
My empire of cardboard
It’s empire of dirt, but I suppose in his case, cardboard cutouts of his likeness could have worked as well. He was covering Trent Reznor’s song though.
He didn’t cover it, he claimed it. It’s a Johnny cash song now.
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Bob Dylan had recurring whinges that covers of his songs were often way better than the original. It seemed good-spirited. So this happens.
I just which, when artists covered Scarborough Fair from Simon and Garfunkle, they either included the Canticle counterpoint or they chose more cohesive passages from the traditional, since the cambric shirt bit and the farming pepper on the sea strand part are two different sequences.
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life threatening, if the male suicide statistics are right
idk man, sometimes you just need a good cry
Amen
“my gf and I’s” makes me want to hurl things and scream
Apart from hating the abbreviation, what’s wrong with this? It sounds somewhat grammatically correct.
when you say something belongs to you, you don’t call it “I’s thing” - you call it “my thing”.
if it belongs to your friends Jim and Bob, it’s “Jim and Bob’s thing” or “Jim’s and Bob’s thing”. likewise, when it belongs to your gf and yourself, it makes more sense to say “my gf and my” or “my gf’s and my”, rather than inventing a brand new word that sounds so very stupid.
Why is that? I’m not a native speaker and in German we usually list ourselves last so I’ve used that before.
I’s is not the actual possessive form. It would be like saying “ichs filmnacht” instead “meine filmnacht”
In English, the proper way to say it would be “my gf’s and my annual bad movie night”
It’s funny; when I was learning German, I thought genitive was so weird, but it honestly makes so much more sense than how we do it in English
#MakeEnglishGermanicAgain
It’s a rule in English that “and I” is only used when it’s the subject not the object of a sentence. (Subject is the thing doing the action, and the object is the thing being acted upon)
The proper way to say this would be “she’s coming over me and my girlfriend’s movie night” because “she” is the subject in this sentence since she is the one “coming over”.
Hope that makes sense.
nerd
fake nerd, real nerds recognize that linguistic prescriptivism is poopoo and you can use language however you want, optionally in such a way that people understand what you’re saying.
yup
Thanks for the explanation. I don’t know if I’ll really change my habit though. It’s been ingrained into me over and over from a young age on that the “ass (donkey) always names themselves first” and it’s a bit uncomfy to do so now. I also mostly don’t feel bad about breaking that rule as it seems a bit arbitrary.
English doesn’t follow its own rules, why should we?
prescriptivism detected
Unified grammar and spelling increases the speed, accuracy and universality of communication
Except its perfectly understood either way, so in this case does it really do anything?
True, but I, at least, had to do a double take. I’m not a native speaker, but it’s much the same in my native language.
Being understandable feels like the minimum ask of language, isn’t it better to also make it easy to read to a broad audience?
Not saying you have to be a dick about it, just that prescriptivism has its benefits.
yeah I’m also jealous of being able to say that
