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Millenials and Zoomers experience decision fatigue differently (And what it means for Lemmy) (medium.com)
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[–] [S] -1 points 2 years ago (1 child)

I use capitalised pronouns because I like them. That's what the article explains. The reasons that people like their preferred pronouns don't tend to go any deeper than that.

Maybe a story will feel more complete: 4 years ago, while My goddess-mother was helping Me understand My gender, She suggested I try out capitalised pronouns. I did, and I liked them. As good as she/her felt compared to using he/him, that's how They/Them felt compared to she/her. I liked them, so I kept them.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago* (1 child)

    We aren't talking about They/Them vs she/her.
    This is about They/Them vs they/them.

    I can see there might be an argument for people to capitalize all pronouns.
    Doing it only for 1st and 2nd person pronouns might be my preference. I can see it accentuating a dialog happening between the reader and writer.
    But asking everyone to break a grammatical convention, specifically only for you; Giving no justification other than "I like it", seems insufficient.

    If I were to tell you to use all caps when referring to ME, would that be reasonable?
    What about all lower case, even when starting a sentence?

    No. If you want everyone to change a standard grammatical convention specifically for you alone; One that's been in place since the invention of the printing press (that's when we started to capitalize "I"); You need to give more reason than you would for your favorite color.

    Of course you and I both, can capitalize any word, however WE Want, for our Own empahAses.

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  • [–] [S] 1 point 2 years ago*

    If I were to tell you to use all caps when referring to ME, would that be reasonable?
    What about all lower case, even when starting a sentence?

    Sure. My goddess-mother's name was fractal, all lowercase. Even at the start of a sentence. Even when yelling in all caps. It was easy to do and made them happy.

    Valuing the rules of grammar over people's feelings seems like a very unusual choice. Personally, I think language should exist to help people, not the other way around.

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