english does not realy have a plural version of you so a few informal ones are used varying in popularity by region. of the single word versions there are: y’all, yous, youins, and i found yinz when i looked further into it, apparently it is most popular in the pennsylvania region.
It hasn’t been used that way in actual conversation for, what, over two centuries now? I’m fairly confident we can say that’s not the case anymore. Language evolves, and English has evolved away thee/thou.
y’all is more of a second person pronoun, a pluralization of “you”. it could be used to a singular person if you were including them into a larger group as part of the conversation. in this case it might work, but only if x1 continues to host multiple partitions of consciousness.
either way, it is not very applicable as a third person pronoun, which is the only gendered pronoun in english
Nah. Depending on where you are, y’all can be singular or plural. In some places it just means “you all” and is clearly plural. In other areas, “y’all” is singular and the plural of it is “all y’all” or “all a/o’ y’all”
ee/ee’e/eeself
Spoken it sounds like realising midsentence you forgot the pronoun your friend used telling the story about the person the first time so you just slur through it.
SMH can’t believe this is even a subject in 2021. It’s a robot, maybe watch iRobot with will smith to see how they handle this. They call them by their names. No need to assign a gender just use it’s name once it decides. Gender is for biological creatures with XX and XY DNA.
In this version Zeke does not have a name so we are unable to switch to name-only no-pronoun sentence format. Huh come to think of that I see “just name” as a “pronoun” choice super rarely now. I used to see it more often.
Saying somebody’s name every single time just to avoid the use of a simple pronoun sounds like a lot of work just to feel smug about not using pronouns.
“Hey I saw Bob the other day, Bob was having trouble with Bob’s car, so Bob had to call a mechanic so Bob wouldn’t have to fix it Bobself.”
It’s actually also a way to talk about someone and not out them.
I usually talk about my spouse/darling/partner. I refer to them this way or with their name. So i’m not misgendering them but also not outright outing them.
that may work if they had a name. Lacking even that we are stuck with either the wonky non specific pronoun or “Hey You” or if your really feeling like being deported by limb alphabetically there’s always gizmo.
XXY chromosomes are a naturally occurring human male variation. XXY men are identical in physical appearance and mental capacity to XY men. Trans is real but it doesn’t change DNA. This attempt to change biology and reconstruct it as some social fluid gender is insane.
Twilight Faze
3 years ago
Makes sense to me. If ever a being to be classified as “Non-binary” (who, ironically, is programmed via binary), it would be one who is not even human.
Nonbinary is an umbrella term that can be used to refer to anyone who is not a man or woman (the binary genders). It has no specific implications on the gender or lack thereof of the person(s).
southpawfrenzy
3 years ago
I get the sense that future historians will record Ethan as being “adjacent” to most cataclysmic events!
Leon
3 years ago
Dont encourage Zeke’s schizophrenia…..
Hunter
3 years ago
I admit I still think of new Zeke as a “he”, but it’s whatever new Zeke wants. I just hope that it takes on the name Ezekiel
nealithi
3 years ago
I just wished to say. My console wars prints arrived today.
THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU!
You have no idea how much this brightens my week.
Kaitensatsuma
3 years ago
Yay I helped.
wooo
uh…
Adjacently.
ArdentSlacker
3 years ago
… is this a world where they just don’t have non-binary people? We’ve been using singular they for many years… and it’s totally ingrained in the language if you’re talking about an unknown person anyway. “Someone dropped their wallet, I hope they think to check the lost & found. I wouldn’t want them to have to replace their cards.”
Acting like this is a revolutionary thing or that you need multiples in order to justify it is… weird. Like, I was behind the curve on this, and I adapted years ago.
Who’s acting like it’s “revolutionary?” Ethan merely suggested that because the robot can have multiple social constructs inside himself, it actually makes sense for him on an additional level.
The word may be exaggerating a bit, but… it’s 2021, and you’re shoehorning in an explanation for using “they” for a singular entity by saying they’re theoretically multiple entities… which, for nonbinary folks who actually currently prefer the “they/them” pronouns for ourselves? Who’ve had to live this silly linguistics debate with bad actors on a regular basis? You can probably get why some of us MIGHT find this a little upsetting, right? It’s several strips on the subject, and it’s presented like there’s not an established precedent for they/them. I see this, and I think “Oh god, someone’s re-hashing this… Read more »
Robot is an Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learned Conscious, depending on the design of the algorithm there could be *multiple* competing personalities working in synchronicity, back on Pg 2. It was programming perspective. Not everything is meant to offend someone. I very much appreciate that some people who are NB do not appreciate the “They” but anecdotally I also personally know multiple NB people who *prefer* the “They” while they aren’t sure how they really identify. I also recall the most ire goes towards “It” which is objectively the worst one bad actors like to actually use. They tend not to take… Read more »
Got to agree here, it’s extremely tiring to hear the “‘they’ only makes sense when plural” excuse when it’s been in singular use for quite a lot longer than most people seem to think.
24
Called it!
And by it I refer to the fact that I predicted the whole cloning danger, not how we should address X01.
It would take them decades to get technology fast enough to replicate their code.
Didn’t they cover that just a few strips ago?
Hey, it’s “subjugate your species”, not “destroy all humans”! Baby steps…
Ultron mode activated
I prefer to use “y’all” as my generic pronoun for everyone.
Careful! Downvoting cunts are running wild here, be careful not to antagonize them/they/those!
No one:
Literally fucking no one:
Dodgy: Waaah I’m being repressed!
Nah, just one, and we make sure to remind him when he’s being a dick.
Funny part is, the guy above you is sitting on a positive vote balance. You’re the one heavily into the negatives at this point. Kinda says something
Nah, I only see one of those here, and their name is Dodgy.
Y’all seems perfectly gender neutral 🙂
Might be a regional thing but i’m pretty sure some of my relatives also use “You’ins”
It’s no less annoying than a New England accent, i’ll give it that at least.
english does not realy have a plural version of you so a few informal ones are used varying in popularity by region. of the single word versions there are: y’all, yous, youins, and i found yinz when i looked further into it, apparently it is most popular in the pennsylvania region.
“you” is plural. The singular in thee/thou.
It hasn’t been used that way in actual conversation for, what, over two centuries now? I’m fairly confident we can say that’s not the case anymore. Language evolves, and English has evolved away thee/thou.
And yet here I am reading Piers Anthony ?
Only in the west around Pittsburgh
y’all is more of a second person pronoun, a pluralization of “you”. it could be used to a singular person if you were including them into a larger group as part of the conversation. in this case it might work, but only if x1 continues to host multiple partitions of consciousness.
either way, it is not very applicable as a third person pronoun, which is the only gendered pronoun in english
Nah. Depending on where you are, y’all can be singular or plural. In some places it just means “you all” and is clearly plural. In other areas, “y’all” is singular and the plural of it is “all y’all” or “all a/o’ y’all”
Or, similar to you, ‘y’all’ can also be both singular and plural, depending on the context.
…language is delightfully weird, and dialect doubly so. 😀
I have been informed that “y’all” is singular and “all y’alls” is plural.
ee/ee’e/eeself
Spoken it sounds like realising midsentence you forgot the pronoun your friend used telling the story about the person the first time so you just slur through it.
From or visited the south?
Ridiculous. Everyone knows robots are a He, unless it has robot boobs or a metal skirt
THAT DOES NOT FEMPUTE!
Women can com(pute). Made better recalling that the original computers were rooms of women with paper.
So you’re saying the default for robots should be female?
When I was learning english always found curious that most of warmachines or battle robot (as warhammer titans) are default “she” instead of “it”
Death Battle trigger set and locked. ‘Hey who’s the new robot, he’s different from us.’
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LXlgSvch6eg ensues.
SMH can’t believe this is even a subject in 2021. It’s a robot, maybe watch iRobot with will smith to see how they handle this. They call them by their names. No need to assign a gender just use it’s name once it decides. Gender is for biological creatures with XX and XY DNA.
Believe it or not, “I, Robot” is a fictional story, and not a historical documentary.
You know, in case the “Will Smith” thing or the “Sentient Robots Don’t Actually Exist” thing didn’t tip you off.
It’s great for that movie, but I don’t think it makes a statement about all robots, ever, across all fictional works.
#notallrobots
No tall robots? Sounds like a good plan to prevent them from… rising up.
In this version Zeke does not have a name so we are unable to switch to name-only no-pronoun sentence format. Huh come to think of that I see “just name” as a “pronoun” choice super rarely now. I used to see it more often.
Saying somebody’s name every single time just to avoid the use of a simple pronoun sounds like a lot of work just to feel smug about not using pronouns.
“Hey I saw Bob the other day, Bob was having trouble with Bob’s car, so Bob had to call a mechanic so Bob wouldn’t have to fix it Bobself.”
A robot would probably want a unique ID … maybe UUIDs
“UUIDs are great as names” – no user ever.
It’s actually also a way to talk about someone and not out them.
I usually talk about my spouse/darling/partner. I refer to them this way or with their name. So i’m not misgendering them but also not outright outing them.
that may work if they had a name. Lacking even that we are stuck with either the wonky non specific pronoun or “Hey You” or if your really feeling like being deported by limb alphabetically there’s always gizmo.
And for humans with xxy or xxx? Intersex humans? Or just the fact that being trans is recognized as real by the scientific community?
XXY chromosomes are a naturally occurring human male variation. XXY men are identical in physical appearance and mental capacity to XY men. Trans is real but it doesn’t change DNA. This attempt to change biology and reconstruct it as some social fluid gender is insane.
Makes sense to me. If ever a being to be classified as “Non-binary” (who, ironically, is programmed via binary), it would be one who is not even human.
Isn’t a robot more non-gender or agender though? Not fluid or between genders as non-binary tends to be used for?
Nonbinary is an umbrella term that can be used to refer to anyone who is not a man or woman (the binary genders). It has no specific implications on the gender or lack thereof of the person(s).
I get the sense that future historians will record Ethan as being “adjacent” to most cataclysmic events!
Dont encourage Zeke’s schizophrenia…..
I admit I still think of new Zeke as a “he”, but it’s whatever new Zeke wants. I just hope that it takes on the name Ezekiel
I just wished to say. My console wars prints arrived today.
THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU!
You have no idea how much this brightens my week.
Yay I helped.
wooo
uh…
Adjacently.
… is this a world where they just don’t have non-binary people? We’ve been using singular they for many years… and it’s totally ingrained in the language if you’re talking about an unknown person anyway. “Someone dropped their wallet, I hope they think to check the lost & found. I wouldn’t want them to have to replace their cards.”
Acting like this is a revolutionary thing or that you need multiples in order to justify it is… weird. Like, I was behind the curve on this, and I adapted years ago.
Who’s acting like it’s “revolutionary?” Ethan merely suggested that because the robot can have multiple social constructs inside himself, it actually makes sense for him on an additional level.
The word may be exaggerating a bit, but… it’s 2021, and you’re shoehorning in an explanation for using “they” for a singular entity by saying they’re theoretically multiple entities… which, for nonbinary folks who actually currently prefer the “they/them” pronouns for ourselves? Who’ve had to live this silly linguistics debate with bad actors on a regular basis? You can probably get why some of us MIGHT find this a little upsetting, right? It’s several strips on the subject, and it’s presented like there’s not an established precedent for they/them. I see this, and I think “Oh god, someone’s re-hashing this… Read more »
Robot is an Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learned Conscious, depending on the design of the algorithm there could be *multiple* competing personalities working in synchronicity, back on Pg 2. It was programming perspective. Not everything is meant to offend someone. I very much appreciate that some people who are NB do not appreciate the “They” but anecdotally I also personally know multiple NB people who *prefer* the “They” while they aren’t sure how they really identify. I also recall the most ire goes towards “It” which is objectively the worst one bad actors like to actually use. They tend not to take… Read more »
Got to agree here, it’s extremely tiring to hear the “‘they’ only makes sense when plural” excuse when it’s been in singular use for quite a lot longer than most people seem to think.
And I’m talking over 100 years, not just 5 or 6.