@ I think it makes sense if the same people always overexplain things. But people overexplain things, because they don't know how smart you are. Just give them the benefit of the doubt, be annoyed for a second and get over it. Everybody has pet peeves. Just get over it, until you know someone well enough and then they probably already stopped overexplaining things. If not, you can tell them. — josephine2 mins ago
Tell me about pronouns ... That might very well be day #457 of me trying to explain my coworkers why I use singular they when mentioning end users in my code comments
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@avazula Ouch... Thankfully, at my company we have a policy of using "l'écriture inclusive" (inclusive writing). So even if my manager is often confuse when I write "iel/iels" (french version of "they"), I can always say "that's inclusive writing" and it end the discussion
Side note @ava are you interested in performance testing and/or Gatling? I have an article about it if you want to read it (it's IMO, my most boring article so far but if you are interested by the subject..)
@Ael I would argue this is not equivalent, it's a neopronoun. So far no consensus about their usage. Gender neutral and historical singular they exist in English, while in our language, everything is gendered, so we're a bit screwed to make things fair language wise. For better understanding by my peers that don't really know much about neopronouns I usually end up saying "il ou elle" or find constructs that avoid gendering.
All that just so to say it's just so much more convenient to write in English when it comes to gender inclusion.
Oh, by the way @ava, I just finished writing a new tale. I sent it to my big sister so that she can correct my (many) grammatical errors, but I'm definitively planning on making you read it afterward :D It's about "the little mermaid", but she is aro-ace and using sign language to communicate ^^
@Ael In Dutch, hen is plural, and hun is the possessive. Using it 'wrong' is more often an indicator of low-letteredness and/or intelligence than inclusive writing.
> 1e mv. wij. we ons ons, onze ons 2e mv. jullie, u jullie, je , u jullie, uw je, u 3e mv. zij, ze hen (LV, VV en na een voorzetsel, hun (MV), ze (LV,MV,VV) hun zich
So we have words to indicate a 1st person plural (we, us, ours)
@Ael Sure, it's never brought up in ESL studies. I personally don't like calling it "inclusive language". Seems to give it some bias. It only makes sense to call a group of people by something that would include both genders, this is not inclusive or non-inclusive IMO
The worst thing is: when I'm trying to reproduce a bloody bug it's not here anymore but another one took the place so things are now doubly not working!
Ugh. I hate and love those 'introduce yourself in 30 seconds' kinda things. On the one hand they're totally meaningless, on the other... they're totally meaningless so you don't give away too much to other strangers XD
Oh, it's not recruiting... it's a chapter meeting ;D
Worst I've had was still the goat-wool-sock-self-proclaimed-uncertified-study-coach.
She had put all sorts of pictures cut from magazines on the floor... 'please pick one and tell us something about yourself by explaining why you picked this picture'
It was one of those where at the end of the introduction round, you didn't know anyone's name and ended up going "Hey you, the dude with the sparkling personality, no the other dude with the sparkling personality"
@Tinkeringbell I once read a similar thing, but they were stuck near North Pole and were forced to eat their Arctic sled dogs, they all died because of vitamin A poisoning from their livers because Arctic sled dogs also have extreme concentrations of vitamin A in their livers, like polar bears.
Best way to learn names is still 'krantenmeppertje'. Put someone with a rolled up newspaper in the middle, shout a name, and the person in the middle needs to try and gently hit the lap of the named person before that person names another name.
So I think a personal fault of mine is I tend to get on edge about what people think of me, and I often bend over backwards to do what is asked of me from others rather than risk disappointing or angering them.
I need to be able to say no to these people and put myself over their opinion but I re...