[FRIAM] absurd

Thu May 1 17:18:11 EDT 2025

Love it.

In some conversation in the home a few months ago, I was hit with an insight of how I would do this.

If ever backed into a corner and forced to list “my" pronouns on some university fact-sheet, I would say those are “us and them”.  That works even better since the Super Bowl.

Eric

> On May 2, 2025, at 5:55 AM, Marcus Daniels <marcus at snoutfarm.com> wrote:
> 
> Hmm.  If I list my pronouns as y'all will I get on one of Stephen Miller's lists?
> 
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>> On May 2, 2025, at 3:44 AM, Nicholas Thompson <thompnickson2 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>> Is  "y'all"  a  sure tell of trolling ?
> 
> Not for many who have lived in Texas.  
> 
> When I moved to Austin for grad school, it was really a pretty sweet town in all sorts of places, from the hipsters to the Mexican neighborhoods to the Old Farmers.  That was a long time ago now.  But I had the good luck to choose to spend time with them all when that was on offer.
> 
> That was where I learned that y’all is singular, and all-y’all is needed for the plural.
> 
> Eric
> 
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>> On Thu, May 1, 2025 at 7:14 AM glen <gepropella at gmail.com> wrote:
>> This is what I imagine y'all are doing when you chat with LLMs:
>> 
>> Confusing ChatGPT With an Impossible Paradox 
>> https://youtu.be/1qbiCKrbbYc?si=V8U_mioTmlaDpynM
>> 
>> At times, it smacks of a Monty Python skit.
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