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      OP, the correct gender neutral pronoun is “they”, even if we talk about one person.

      But generally a very solid meme!

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      grammatical animacy (“it” vs “they”) aside, its not as easy to get it/it’s right as some commenters suggest. the authors of the constitution got it wrong too. the error has it’s own few decades of historical precedent. 🙃

      No State shall, without the Consent of the Congress, lay any Imposts or Duties on Imports or Exports, except what may be absolutely necessary for executing it’s inspection Laws: and the net Produce of all Duties and Imposts, laid by any State on Imports or Exports, shall be for the Use of the Treasury of the United States; and all such Laws shall be subject to the Revision and Controul of the Congress.

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          turns out codifying one single spelling for an incredibly diverse language and forcing all of its speakers to stick to it was slightly more difficult than founding a new genre of government

          (edit this was meant to be a funny silly little comment not biting satire so you all can stop dogpiling me now you make this website miserable)

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    I was in the later years of elementary school when the American school system really started to become grossly underfunded.

    I repeatedly heard my teacher grumbling about copy paper and lack of supplies. A coupe of times, my teacher complained to ME! Expressing how they were stressed out about not being able to get all the stuff they needed to teach and didn’t mean to snap at me like that. O_O

    I really felt bad for them, they couldn’t do anything to stop it.

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              Sounds like a race from a fantasy series that does something with magical wooden swords which are for some reason better than regular metal swords.

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                “Sire! The Theiyr"reian hoards have attacked the village of Peasantry. The Peasants, they fight back, Sire, but they will surely be overwhelmed. We expect a death toll in the millions, Sire.”

                “Dispatch ten knights to se- wait, ‘millions’? There’s only a few thousand people in that village.”

                “Yes, Sire, we included the Theiyr"reians in our estimates… there’s a lot of them but they fight with wooden swords, Sire.”

                “…”

                “They are an inefficient peoples, Sire.”

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    Our class party’s were always “bring a plate” type parties - parents would give the kids a plate of something to contribute

    It was the best.

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    Been there. In my secondary school, every week a class was selected for performing well (so good feedback for behaviour and homework sort of stuff) so the class got a tenner I think. So at the end of the year when we won so many times we had about 100 quid so the teacher wanted to see what everybody wanted to do and of course the class said party. So the teacher had to plan out how to spread 100 pound on food for a class of 30 and she used her own money too. My form teacher was a legend.

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      In my primary school they did it based on the cleanest classroom. Except all we won was a $2 Freddo frog. The teachers wouldn’t let us vacuum though, and rather than just not eat inside and not make a mess, we went around with tape to pick up all the carpet crumbs

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    I never appreciated this as a kid even though there was plenty of pizza to go around for everyone back then. If any teachers are in this thread reading this comment, thank you. Thank you. It does make a difference, even if it’s a small gesture.

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      My wife and I go out of our way to try to reinforce the fact that we, as parents, very very very much appreciate their teachers. We give them Christmas cards, end of year cards, we donate gifts to them, and any time they send home a letter saying they are running low on supplies we donate something with a thank you card. Hopefully this eventually becomes apparent to the kids that they should appreciate the teachers just as much.

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      No capital to start the sentence, no period, “bough” instead of bought. Yep.

      TBF there’s a whole separate mindset of online communication that seems to demand shitty writing and spelling, like there’s peer pressure to not do it right even if the writer might know better. One would hope in a more formal setting the writer would do better. Maybe.

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    I did a pizza party for the class that made the most improvement on a benchmark test. Paid ~$100 in my own money, tried to get everyone enough for two slices. It wasn’t the right kind of pizza, they were still hungry, I didn’t get the right soda… fuck me for not dropping that cash on a fat j instead.

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      Unfortunately, $100 isn’t enough to satisfy varying tastes, while also leaving out no one. Aside from that, kids didn’t recognize sacrifice, nor were most of them taught the manners to say “No, but thank you.”

      Honestly, I think you probably should have known.

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        Then we teach them?? They’re not gonna know if we don’t be good role models for them, but doesn’t mean they can’t learn.

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            Yeah it bothers me too. It’s not as easy as @movies@lemmy.world suggests though, I think. Yes, apostrophe means you’re using a contraction, so “it’s” should be easy.

            But apostrophe also means possession in almost every other case. “It’s” and “there’s” are literally the only examples I can think of in standard English where an apostrophe can be used, but cannot mean possession. Native speakers still have no excuse, but it is a bit of a weird oddity that has to be learnt.

            What really bug’s me is when people randomly throw apostrophe’s in where they just make no sense, on what should be simple plural word’s or even just verb conjugation’s. And it happen’s all the damn time. (I’m so sorry.)

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            Asexual is a sexuality, like gay or straight, not a gender identity. It can go with “he”, “she”, or “they” depending on the person.

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              Agender? I’m looking online now and the closest thing I can find is that some nonbinary people prefer it/its, so that was probably the closest one/best guess from the start.

              Edit: Null gender seems like the closest thing I can find, besides the random nonbinaries that prefer it.

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        i think u did great with ur guess of nonbinary :3

        one cant really infer gender from pronouns but i think for it/its pronouns, general nonbinary is as fair a guess as agender.

        just because they/them is a more commonly used pronoun for nonbinary ppl, that doesnt mean they wont use whatever other pronouns they vibe with.

        (source: i use it/its and they/them)

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          Thank you for your feedback, I’m just a bi dude that likes to cross dress sometimes and I’m still learning a bunch of the nuance.