Notices by 🎓 Dr. Freemo :jpf: 🇳🇱 (freemo@qoto.org), page 101

@design_RG ANCIENT - BYZANTINE (5th CENT AD - 15th CENT AD) BYZANTINE EMPIRE Constans II, AD 641-668

@Meachamus_Prime

No, if that were the case then the definition would say so. Definitions are wordy and precise specifically so you cant pull that sort of nonsense.

What I will say is this. At the time cross-dressers/trans were a lot less common in public. For that reason most of the time it wasnt even a question which one had to think about when talking about people. That only happened behind closed doors.

@CCoinTradingIdeas

@georgia lol funny but is actually true. Stars scintilate (twinkle), planets dont. Still true today :)

@CCoinTradingIdeas Gender is still about words, The words we use called adjectives. No one wants it to be about anything other than that. Thats why sex is a different word.

There are only two **sexes** (and more rarely intersex). But as the definition has **always** been, sex is **not** the same as gender.

@georgia For reference here is the original (1828) definition for planet. It would include pluto and exclude most kepler objects in its wording. It is the real definition as far as im concerned as it developed through natural usage

noun [Latin planeta; Gr. wandering, to wander, allied to Latin planus. See Plant.] A celestial body which revolves about the sun or other center, or a body revolving about another planet as its center. The planets which revolve about the sun as their center, are called primary planets; those which revolve about other planets as their center, and with them revolve about the sun, are called secondary planets, satellites or moons. The primary planets are named Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn and Herschell. Four smaller planets, denominated by some, asteroids, namely, Ceres, Pallas, Juno and Vesta, have recently been discovered between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter. Mars, Jupiter, Saturn and Herschell, being without the earth's orbit, are sometimes called the superior planets; Venus and Mercury, being within the earth's orbit, are called inferior planets. The planets are opake bodies which receive their light from the sun. They are so named from their motion or revolution, in distinction from the fixed stars, and are distinguished from the latter by their not twinkling.

@Rovine There are two different arguments being conflated here

1) People can choose their gender, on a spectrum between masculine and feminine, based on how they express themselves (dress, act, talk)

2) That genders do not exist on a spectrum and can be anything that you feel id "right"

I agree with #1, but not with #2.

@ericbuijs1

Which of these posts were commercial in nature? All I see are free-to-the-pubic journal papers, nothing commercial.

@danie10

Interesting fact of the day: Webster's Dictionary in 1828 defined gender in much the same way as modern liberals define it, that being, ones expression of pronouns and does not strictly adhere to any sense of sex. In fact the dictionary definition at the time goes into some detail on that point.

So strictly speaking assigning ones gender based on preferred pronouns or expression of femininity/masculinity is in fact the traditional and historic usage of the word.

Here is a word-for-word copy of the text of the definition for gender in Webster's 1828 dictionary:

In grammar, a difference in words to express distinction of sex; usually a difference of termination in nouns, adjectives and participles, to express the distinction of male and female. But although this was the original design of different terminations, yet in the progress of language, other words having no relation to one sex or the other, came to have genders assigned them by custom. Words expressing males are said to be of the masculine gender; those expressing females, of the feminine gender; and in some languages, words expressing things having no sex, are of the neuter or neither gender

http://webstersdictionary1828.com/Dictionary/gender

#gender #english #grammar #lgbt #lgbtq #equalrights #trans

Interesting fact of the day: Webster's Dictionary in 1828 defined gender in much the same way as modern liberals define it, that being, ones expression of pronouns and does not strictly adhere to any sense of sex. In fact the dictionary definition at the time goes into some detail on that point.

So strictly speaking assigning ones gender based on preferred pronouns or expression of femininity/masculinity is in fact the traditional and historic usage of the word.

Here is a word-for-word copy of the text of the definition for gender in Webster's 1828 dictionary:

In grammar, a difference in words to express distinction of sex; usually a difference of termination in nouns, adjectives and participles, to express the distinction of male and female. But although this was the original design of different terminations, yet in the progress of language, other words having no relation to one sex or the other, came to have genders assigned them by custom. Words expressing males are said to be of the masculine gender; those expressing females, of the feminine gender; and in some languages, words expressing things having no sex, are of the neuter or neither gender

#gender #english #grammar #lgbt #lgbtq #equalrights #trans

@Rod Very cool, ill try it soon!

@georgia Crafting of definitions are based on usage, we dont get to pick and choose what a definition is for existing words.

Planet was never a technical term, it was archaic, so they had no right to try to redefine it contrary to its usage. If they wanted a technical term then they should have made up a new term for what they wanted.

Thats the whole point, you dont get the right to craft definitions for words already in common use, the usage dictates the definition not the other way around.

@bauglir https://git.qoto.org/qoto/qoto

@Rod hyperspace?

@iamo Life in general? Have you considered looking for some help to get happy again from someone trained to help?

@bauglir Yes it is, its on our gitlab instance.

Yes we are working on the 3.0 update and should be doing the move soon. There is a bit of fear over it dropping OStatus and thus would cut us off from systems that federate with that protocol.

@ericbuijs1

By the way I never said FB and twitter are better for me. I run my own instance so I invest the time in blocking commercial accounts instance wide. So I'm more than happy here. Just saying there are plenty of ads in the network and they are much harder to block is all.

@danie10

@iamo Reach out if I can ever be of any help or you want someone to talk to.

@ericbuijs1

Well I never said there were "official" ads, only ads.

With that said i dont know what rules fosstodon has, I only mentioned MS as I know their rules. Perhaps they dont allow commercial accounts.

QOTO also bans commercial accounts so some instances are ad free, but MS is not as far as i know.

@danie10

Conditioning also conditions the conditioner.