JimVanDeventer

I'm pro LGBTQ

against trans-women

Right

• Takes picture of cardboard box in rubbish bin
• Posts picture to feel smug and superior
• Snorts a bit because of smug and superior feeling
• Pulls box out of bin
• Hugs box tight
• Never let go of box

I’m something of a mating ball, myself.

UMM, I DONT KNOW WHAT THAT IS YET BUT I HAVE LIKED AND SUBSCRIBED BECAUSE YOU YELLED AT ME.

Police investigation concludes “boys will be boys”

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

ARGHGHAAGHAAHRRRGHAAHGH

By current conventions, one of those will be interpreted as aggressive and the other submissive, or unprofessional or something (at least within many common contexts).

I am that judgy too. For example, I just had an email with someone I work for this week and she used the word breech (which means poo) instead of breach (as in a contractual breach). And I took the rest of the day off to giggle.

I realize I am nowhere near influential enough. I am comfortable dying right here and now among all you lovely people.

I also feel compelled to mention secure passwords conventionally involve upper and lower cases, but still, this problem can be resolved in other ways. A lot of phones use drawing lines on a grid as authentication. Make your password a combination of Korean and Hindi characters. Make your password a string of emojis.

Edit: and yes, I am more in favour of emojis being incorporated into written language than hoity-toity when you call me “the queen”, you had better call me “the Queen” nonsense. Fuck outta here with that bourgeois gatekeeping.

I appreciate the perspective, and I fully realize this hill I am dying on is not going to win hearts and minds. But you have to admit these problems have been solved in other ways without the extravagance of two mashed up writing systems. Even some forms of English like Morse code and ASL don’t bother with it (or can’t effectively bother with it) and it is fine. I think you are correct when you say vanity is the reason the convention now clings along.

Bonus thought: Punctuation at the beginning of a sentence like in Spanish should be codified across the globe.

Allow me to make my unpopular opinion all the more unpopular. English should instead have diacritics for such cases. Like, I know, it does, sort of (naïve, façade, etc.) but nobody uses them and they aren’t common enough for all the wildly exotic pronunciations of things. Use them! Add more!