Sunshine (she/her)Jan 9

It's a terrible timeline to be in at the moment, at least white people are experiencing the policing non-whites suffer from in this country

https://lemmy.ca/post/58347021

Show threadjaselleJan 10
what are you talking about “this country”, this is lemmy.ca
Show threadMulligrubs

ICE is an American institution, so the pronouns are used appropriately.

Otherwise, they’d have to replace “their” with “Immigration and Customs Enforcement”, or ICE again in the same sentence, and so on.

Pronouns are used as a substitute for the subject so that you don’t have to use the same exact term repeatedly.

The pronouns following the subject all pertain to the subject until the subject is changed.

Jan 10 at 10:35pmWeb
Show threadjaselleJan 10
should be “that country,” no?
Show threadMulligrubsJan 10

People make mistakes with pronouns constantly, as pronouns are not “exact” and are themselves placeholders, an approximation for the subject.

Once you start correcting the pronouns of others, you make conversations about anything else virtually impossible. It’s the destroyer of many threads, done purposefully or not.

As they say in linguistics, just go with it; only then will you get to THE SUBJECT itself