виктор, он (viktor, he/him)@sh.itjust.works to No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world · 16 days agohow do i explain “it’s raining” to my boyfriend?message-squaremessage-square93fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10file-text
arrow-up11arrow-down1message-squarehow do i explain “it’s raining” to my boyfriend?виктор, он (viktor, he/him)@sh.itjust.works to No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world · 16 days agomessage-square93fedilinkfile-text
for context, he is not native english speaker as you could probably tell. do i just say outside is raining?
minus-square667@lemmy.radiolinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·16 days agoThis is a “dummy pronoun” and I only know this because this popped up as a TIL earlier this week.
minus-squareXeroxCool@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·16 days agoMy introduction was Xkcd when they hired a mathematician for the weather forecast, then replaced him with a linguist [rollover: and then a software dev] https://xkcd.com/1985/
minus-squaregrue@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·16 days agoThe rollover text should’ve ended with a link to https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-5wpm-gesOY
This is a “dummy pronoun” and I only know this because this popped up as a TIL earlier this week.
My introduction was Xkcd when they hired a mathematician for the weather forecast, then replaced him with a linguist [rollover: and then a software dev]
https://xkcd.com/1985/
The rollover text should’ve ended with a link to https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-5wpm-gesOY