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A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The best ones are thoughts that many people can relate to and they find something funny or interesting in regular stuff.

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The most Texan of all expressions - Y'All - is ungendered and therefore woke (ttrpg.network)

submitted 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) by [email protected] to c/showerthoughts

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

Yeah. We mostly think of grammatical number as a simple choice of singular vs plural but that's not what we do in real life.

We generally have multiple labels that describe the concept of progressively expanding circles of what's included when we think of ourselves.

There's the very narrow sense of I/me/myself. We have various expansions around us/all'y'all. Jamaicans have the phrase "I and I" which focuses on the individual but explicitly calls out the connection with others.