This was one of those rare times when a meme full of text was actually enjoyable!

My cats are always sleepy. Except when I’m sleeping, that’s the time for a race around the house.

That’s… actually quite interesting. I wonder how true the part about projecting current emotions on it is. I never see it as anything, but an emotionless face.

This was my old keyboard, until I fell into the rabbit hole of
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I’m not quite sure if I’m better or worse off now, but I love my Moonlander nonetheless.

I’d say what’s intuitive is very subjective. Most of a language tends to be intuitive to its native speakers, no matter how unintuitive it seems to someone else.

To me the intuitive genderless option for “he/she” would be “it”. Coming from Finnish, it seems much more natural to have “it” include people instead of using “they” for both singular and plural. Or if using “they”, it would feel intuitive to say “they is” instead of “they are”.

I’m aware it’s a thing and not really a plural. What I was trying to say is that it looks plural and since I didn’t learn about this part of English until several years into my studies as a kid, it isn’t as well established in my mind as “you are” is (that also looks like a plural, but I’m used to it).

“They are” for a single person catches my mental error filter the same way as “I are” or “you is” would, which is highly annoying.

but it’s Monday… and I’m not quite sure what conclusion to draw from that.

I very much agree. Learning English as a foreign language, it feels very wrong to use plural for a single person. I’m still not quite used to it! Although, had I been taught that early on, I doubt it would feel any weirder than using “you are” for a single person.

Pfft, rest of the world should start following Finns on this and call everyone and everything ‘it’! Except pets for some reason.

I’ve actually never seen this format before and I must say I quite like it.