In my dialect it’s totally correct. Having and taking are verbs we’re very comfortable abstracting. “We had rain in my city today” is totally normal and doesn’t imply that I possess the rain. “I have a coworker who believes it’s socially acceptable to eat horseradish at his desk” is gramatically correct and doesn’t imply that I have any power whatsoever over this man.
My mom has a trans person at work, every time she uses the wrong pronoun talking about them I correct her. It’s working out 👌
Where does one go to ‘have’ a trans person? Asking for a friend.
Edit: It’s a joke about owning a trans person, and has nothing to do with grammar. Not sure why people are looking for something to be angry about.
Are you seriously insulting their level of English? Are you aware that not the entire world speaks English as a first language?
You comment is childish and petty and if you belive that op meant what you are referring to then you are quite dense.
It’s not an insult?? It’s a joke about owning trans people. OP didn’t even make any grammatical errors, the sentence was just open to interpretation.
English is my second language too. I don’t get why people like you feel the need to get offended on behalf of others who didn’t ask for it.
Is that even a mistake to begin with? English is not my first language, but as far as I know, you can have a person at work, no?
In my dialect it’s totally correct. Having and taking are verbs we’re very comfortable abstracting. “We had rain in my city today” is totally normal and doesn’t imply that I possess the rain. “I have a coworker who believes it’s socially acceptable to eat horseradish at his desk” is gramatically correct and doesn’t imply that I have any power whatsoever over this man.
Yeah and native speakers never made language mistakes and make jokes at their mistakes… you must be fun at parties.
It’s clearly a joke. Calm down.