• verstra@programming.dev
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      8 hours ago

      Yeah, but I think it is speaking in first person, about itself. So it should be “I saw” and “I think”, regardless of its pronouns in third person.

      • rtxn@lemmy.worldM
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        8 hours ago

        Some people, for reasons I can only speculate on, don’t like speaking in first person singular. In most cases that I’ve seen, they use “we”. I don’t necessarily agree with the practice from a linguistic perspective, the English language is already a garbage fire as it is without introducing more ambivalent speech… but then I also want to go back to using “thou” for second person singular, so I’m probably not qualified to speak on the matter.

    • NeatNit@discuss.tchncs.de
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      9 hours ago

      *its (not it’s)

      Edit: actually the whole thing should be:

      its pronouns are it/it

      (first “it” corresponds to “he”, “she”,

      second “it” corresponds to “him”, “her”)