Re:how to completely own an airline in 3 easy steps
by becquerel on Friday January 20, 2023 @03:53AM
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You can't 'break' a language. You either just follow its rules or flaunt them. If your output is still comprehensible - which 'it' as a pronoun is - it's still language. Back in the day English used to have two pronouns for 'you'. Was merging them both into one pronoun also literally breaking the language?
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Re:how to completely own an airline in 3 easy steps
by ripdog on Friday January 20, 2023 @12:37PM
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She's actively making the language less comprehensible by breaking the rules. Multiple times in this thread, people have said "it" and I've been confused as to what - or who - they're referring to.
I'm not a language historian, so I don't have an opinion on your last question.