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Topic	I can still ignore preferred pronouns if they are Fae/Faer right
Paratroopa1 12/11/21 3:00:47 AM #29:	MZero posted... this isn't actually linguistic description, though. It's putting rules on the way people are allowed to talk in certain situations, contrary to how they naturally would, which is closer to prescriptive language if anything. If the population collectively decided to make a new pronoun, rather than someone being like "call me this" then it would be descriptive language though Nah, that's not how I mean - it's descriptivism in the sense that this person is using this, so I can't really say that the pronoun doesn't exist because they're already demonstrating it <cite>Paratroopa1 posted [p:960814598] in I can stil... [t:79804717]...</cite> <quote>MZero posted... </cite> <quote>this isn't actually linguistic description, though. It's putting rules on the way people are allowed to talk in certain situations, contrary to how they naturally would, which is closer to prescriptive language if anything. If the population collectively decided to make a new pronoun, rather than someone being like "call me this" then it would be descriptive language though</quote>Nah, that's not how I mean - it's descriptivism in the sense that this person is using this, so I can't really say that the pronoun doesn't exist because they're already demonstrating it </quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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