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[–] Carvex@lemmy.world 14 points 6 months ago (1 children)
[–] TxzK@lemmy.zip 12 points 6 months ago (1 children)

What? People called Romanes, they go the house?

[–] Carvex@lemmy.world 9 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Monty Python's Life of Brian, for those of you lost

https://youtu.be/0lczHvB3Y9s

[–] lugal@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Mine are he/him/his. I don't get why people don't mention their possessive pronouns

[–] lvxferre@mander.xyz 2 points 3 months ago

Likely for succinctness. I've also seen people listing only the nominative, specially when they're OK with 2+ pronouns; e.g. "she/they".

[–] lvxferre@mander.xyz 2 points 3 months ago

And then [he] skips [them] altogether, because [they] are all contextually obvious.