I absolutely despise morons who smugly pronounce language learning and translation work “solved”

Juu sammoo miäkkii uonny uatelna. Kaekkee hienoenta tämmöttiissä uonku eip nuo alakoritmit ja semmottet oekkeest uo mittee ees ratkassukkaa. Miä eilispäevänä justiinsa opinni etteep tekoviksut ossoo ees kunnolla murutehia kientöö, vaek kyl miä nii luulinni juu. Tämmöttii kup vähäsennii huastelloopi ni eip hyö siihe oekkee mittee osannukkaa virikata! Kuukkels tuo etteenki se suols aenaki iha pelekköö paskoo, ol ihap hauskoo kyl lukkoo ja naaraa.

Also flying like superman is hard, but floating sideways, or becoming weightless and jumping, and then using wind and rooftops as points to fling yourself higher, is very easy.

I completely agree. I had to “downgrade” to Windows 10 (I cannot have linux on that computer, sadly), because 11 had just so many simple bugs, that affected everyday use very badly. Everything works so much faster with 10, the taskbar shows all programs, no file pictures change sizes like a disco light, and I can even read the file names on the desktop. I have used most of the consumer Windows versions, and never before have I had such a broken interface, that just kept breaking in different ways every update. And these were not “early issues”, this was last year.

Dozen is likely just technically easier, since if you split it in half, you get 6, but if you split 10 half, you get 5. And only 5 is harder to package. I’ve seen 4 eggs sold as well, but 6 and 12 are probably close enough, around the numbers people reasonably need.

You should always buy the organic ones, even if they are so much more expensive. The conditions in which the chickens are kept, to produce the cheap eggs, is absolutely, inhumanely fucked up. You can see the difference in the yolk as well: the ones produced by chickens, that are fed better, and not kept in a way they cannot even move, are orange, while the ones by chickens kept and fed horribly, are yellow.

Except if you are autistic, and never quit your special interests :)

I have a ten-year-old desktop that still works perfectly, and runs all the games I need. Why on earth would I put an arm and a leg into a new one? Not that I would voluntarily put Copilot 11 on anything I own, either way.

My 3DS is easily the best console I have ever used. I do not even care about the 3D part, but it has all the DS games, and bigger screens, yet it is still small enough to be held easily. 10/10, I can also play ocarina of time, and original pokemons with it.

Well, then we have to just agree to disagree. Nonetheless, thank you for the discussion.

That is besides the point. Languages are tools of communication, and you and your circles are using it however you want, which is how languages evolve over time. They are calling it a wrong use of the English language, and telling their opinions why they think so. That is a linguistic argument. Having differing opinions about what is a correct use of words, does not fit the definitions of “gatekeeping”, as you are not prevented from using English the way you want to. If your use of words is not being understood or is refused to be used by others, that is not preventing you from doing. It is a failure of communication.

“I refuse to use it because It is harder” is not an argument, that I have made. What I have pointed out is, that it is especially hard to get people to use neopronouns, since they break the commonly accepted English grammar. The difficulties stemming for example from discrimination, are only one of the issues, that affect people’s opinion about their usage. Ignoring that and claiming it is all because of discrimination or gatekeeping, is either misunderstanding the arguments, or resorting to ad hominem.

It is probably a Windows thing, yes. I just had to do it the most often with Vista, which soured my experience with the operating system.

The argument is, that it’s a nickname you are using a as a pronoun.

I’d word the problem something like… Inserting completely new words into a language can be very difficult, and inserting them in place of existing words is even harder. If a significant portion of the speakers will not accept them, they essentially will not become part of the language. Stretching the meaning of “woman” to include transwomen too? relatively easy, transwomen already fill most of the requirements people have for the meaning of the word. Adopting loanwords for new concepts, something like schadenfreude? also relatively easy, since it did not have a word before and people can quickly grasp the concept.
But if I say something like “uiminen” means swimming in English, will enough people adopt it and use it instead of “swimming”? Absolutely not, why would they? Replacing something like pronouns is even harder than that, since they not only have solid meanings, they are associated with a rigid role in the English language. Does that mean you cannot use them like it? also absolutely not, of course you can. But you cannot force the change you are using to become part of the English language, since a lot of people refuse it as it breaks the existing rules harshly and they have no reason to accept that.
You can obviously try to make “it’s a pronoun, not a nickname” true, which is what you are doing, and which the commenter above is arguing against. But as things stand, the majority of the language speakers will take the side of “it’s a nickname you are using as a pronoun”, which means that’s the reality of it inside what constitutes as the English language.

Is denying that nicknames are pronouns really gatekeeping, is it not more of an argument of semantics? They said you can use whatever nicknames you want, but that does not make them pronouns by definition. That is not a direct argument against someone’s identity, it is an argument about what words mean.
Nobody owns the English language, it is again a tool of communication, a social construct that is defined by the rules people agree to use. The argument made is that English pronouns (or gender for that matter) are not an expression of personality by the very rules that agree how to define what the word “pronoun” means. Not that people cannot call themselves anything they want.
You can disagree with the argument (the rules of languages are everchanging after all), but saying it means an intent to prevent people from using words to describe themselves is unrelated to the actual point made.

The online trans communities are only for certain types of people, and it is not only straight cis men that are not welcome. I have found I have no place in the rainbow communities online either, even though I am trans. Only certain types of opinions seem to dominate the discussions… and they do, because the people thinking differently are not taking part in them.

Mm, the good old tactic of “all bridges burnt in panic, out of embarrassment”.

I hated vista, because I had to repair and re-install it multiple times on my less-tech sawwy friends PC, since sometimes it would simply kill itself! Lol. I do not miss that garbage pile.