• spujb@lemmy.cafe
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      9 months ago

      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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          9 months ago

          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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      9 months ago

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

      But generally a very solid meme!