it's usually more clear when you don't use pronouns. fuck. i mean

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One's writing is usually more clear when you don't use pronouns.

fuck

i mean

One's writing is made more clear when one does not use pronouns.

FUCK

i mean

hey google is "one" a pronoun or a proper noun?

dude. one is a number

ugh. okay wikipedika let's go. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indefinite_pronoun

woah. if transphobes were funnier they would use indefinite universal pronouns. "my pronouns are everyone/everyones". hmm let me put that in my reminders. i might want to use those pronouns for real

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_(pronoun) okay yeah

well. i'm offering advice. maybe i should just use the imperative

Don't use pronouns

i sound like. a republican

To make your writing more clear, use less pronouns

fuck

To write more clearly, prefer proper nouns over pronouns.

yes. but ... im not credentialed enough to provide authorship advice

To write more clearly, consider using proper nouns over pronouns.

wait. what the fuck is a pro form

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pro-form

come on

anyways. i am thinking of using the pronouns "noone/noone/noones"

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flabberghaster wrote

When I was a kid playing Oregon Trail I always named my characters things like "someone", " nobody", "everybody", etc. So that when you're fording a river or what have you, it would say things like "Everybody drowned fording the river. Nobody was injured."

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anethum wrote

anethum gets twovests' point, promise. but anethum still uses pronouns because anethum sounds like a fucking jackass typing like this

but language evolves, best practices change. in the future, maybe, who knows

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twovests OP wrote

Twovests thanks Anethum for their dedication to The Bit

For extra giggles: This post was a dramatic recreation of a train of thought that started with interpreting a Microsoft (r) Teams (tm) Message (c) that was along the lines of

It's probably not bad to do it that way, but if you're going to use that, you might want to use the other one instead

in which case almost all of these pronouns were ambiguous :(

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anethum wrote

dedication

i said "this" though. aaack. not dedicated enough apparently

re: "i don't use pronouns i'm not woke" — i've had similar trains of thought too over the years, though because i'm not a very deep thinker in general it usually just stops with "yeah i agree with the right-wingers: just call everyone with their proper names it's less confusing that way :)" → "don't benathan sound silly when benathan actually speaks without pronouns?". you know as if that's the actual substance of their argument.

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