• Rachelhazideas@lemmy.world
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    3 天前

    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.

    • wondrous_strange@lemmy.world
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      4 天前

      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.

      • Rachelhazideas@lemmy.world
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        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.

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        4 天前

        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?

        • captainlezbian@lemmy.world
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          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.

      • piccolo@sh.itjust.works
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        Yeah and native speakers never made language mistakes and make jokes at their mistakes… you must be fun at parties.