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[โ€“] Steve 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

We aren't talking about They/Them vs she/her.
This is about They/Them vs they/them.

I can see there might be an argument for people to capitalize all pronouns.
Doing it only for 1st and 2nd person pronouns might be my preference. I can see it accentuating a dialog happening between the reader and writer.
But asking everyone to break a grammatical convention, specifically only for you; Giving no justification other than "I like it", seems insufficient.

If I were to tell you to use all caps when referring to ME, would that be reasonable?
What about all lower case, even when starting a sentence?

No. If you want everyone to change a standard grammatical convention specifically for you alone; One that's been in place since the invention of the printing press (that's when we started to capitalize "I"); You need to give more reason than you would for your favorite color.

Of course you and I both, can capitalize any word, however WE Want, for our Own empahAses.

[โ€“] Grail@lemmy.world 0 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

If I were to tell you to use all caps when referring to ME, would that be reasonable?
What about all lower case, even when starting a sentence?

Sure. My goddess-mother's name was fractal, all lowercase. Even at the start of a sentence. Even when yelling in all caps. It was easy to do and made them happy.

Valuing the rules of grammar over people's feelings seems like a very unusual choice. Personally, I think language should exist to help people, not the other way around.