Information theory 101. Pronouns are at most 1 bit of information, but almost never need to be stored separately from names/faces.
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Replying to @riyenakshi @Outsideness and
Adding neopronouns means you have to store the entire neopronoun uncompressed, and the slightest error is a purge-worthy offense.
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Replying to @riyenakshi @Outsideness and
memory doesn't work that way neurologically
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Replying to @schakalsynthetc @Outsideness and
- there's no "atomic" storage unit - there's no such thing as "uncompressed" in biological memory - memory problems aren't storage problems
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Replying to @schakalsynthetc @Outsideness and
This is true, but the way it actually works is worse.
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Replying to @TristanSevers @Outsideness and
don't see how in this case. there's equally good reason to expect uncommon pronouns to be easier, if anything, like uncommon names are
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Replying to @schakalsynthetc @TristanSevers and
what I'm saying is don't know if 12 pronouns are significantly more difficult to process than 2 but I'm fairly sure nobody else does either
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Replying to @schakalsynthetc @TristanSevers and
I can't keep track of German grammatical genders to save my life but native speakers do it all the time *shrug*
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Replying to @schakalsynthetc @TristanSevers and
if there was any sincerity to these "arguments", you'd expect people to get aneurysms every time they encounter words in a foreign language.
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