my biggest pet peeve wiht the english language is that you don’t have sin/sina
in swedish if u have two people who use the same pronoun u can always tell whos doing what bc its like ‘han tog sin väska’ (he took his[own] bag) and ‘han tog hans väska’ would be that he took the other persons bag
but in english its like if u have 2 ppl w/ the same pronoun:
“she took her bag” whose bag????WHose BAG was it her OWN bag or the other her’s bag??????????????
“he ate his donuts” were the donuts his own???? did he fucking eat someone elses donuts??? YIU DONT KNOW bc english is a bullshit language
also known as, the gay fanfiction dilemma
I’ve been cursing myself for starting a fanfic with two male main characters; this would make my writing SO much easier.
Have you considered: Just use our words?
Adam and Steve meet in a coffee shop, both put down their bags and, ugh, Steve is wearing exactly the tie Adam told him to get rid of.
Adam took sin bag, and his as well, leaving Steve sitting alone and bagless with a terrible tie.
NOTICE HOW English doesn’t have a different word you can confuse it for, because the pre-existing English word “sin” doesn’t fit into the sentence at that spot.
This is an excellent suggestion. In fact, the entire English language shoud be hacked to work better with pronouns. Discard gender because it only results in silly infinite lookup tables of custom pronous, and instead fix (at least) the following:
Inclusive local we two; I, thou (we!both) Inclusive local we many; I, thou, others here (we!here) Inclusive global we; I, thou, others not here (we!all) Exclusive local we: I, others here (we!us) Exclusive global we: I, others not here (we!myside)
Singular you: thou (thou) Plural local you: thou, others here (you!here) Plural global you: thou, others not here (you!yourside)
Possession referring-to-self: their own (sin) Possession referring-to-other: someone else’s (ses, because universal Finnish genderless “it” (in English se would be se(h)/ses/sem) is the Objectively Superior third-person pronoun)
For example:
Let me tell (thou) a secret.
Now (we!both) know the secret.
Adam and Steve also know the secret, (we!all) know sem.
Steve also has a secret of (sin) own. Adam is here and tells (we!both) (ses) secret.
Adam tells (sin) secret as well.
Steve doesn’t know Adam’s secret; only (we!here) know sem.
(thou) weren’t aware of (we!myside)’s secrets before, but now (we!us) have told them.
(you!here) have heard my secret now; if (thou) wish (thou) may tell sem to the rest of (you!yourside) rationalist tumblrers.
(via shieldfoss)
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