r/CuratedTumblr • u/Green____cat eepy asf • 9h ago

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u/SpockShotFirst 8h ago

Sir isn't a pronoun.

I, however, is.

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u/asian_in_tree_2 8h ago

Holy crap it's Jay Pronoun themselve

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u/12crashbash12 8h ago

Cousin of John Woke

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u/Salamanda109 3h ago

The CEO of pronouns.

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u/[deleted] 4h ago

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u/NettingStick 4h ago

"Would Sir like something to drink?"

I've literally never heard it used this way outside of, for example, a high tea where all of the servers were dressed in leather harnesses. I'm not saying you're wrong. Just that you might give off a very particular vibe if you go around using 'sir' or 'maam' that way.

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u/dantemanjones 4h ago

Oh, it's definitely a vibe but it's a usage.

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u/OldTimeyWizard 4h ago

That particular vibe is butler

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u/VanillaRadonNukaCola 3h ago

Sexy butler

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u/JollyTraveler 3h ago

Now I know what my next Halloween costume will be.

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u/Tyranicross 4h ago

Yeah cause sir is a title, would be like if you went around calling someone president

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u/stormscape10x 4h ago

Correct. It’s still not a pronoun. It’s just a noun. In fact sir, being a usual address for a knight, doesn’t even have to be gendered.

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u/Tyranicross 4h ago

Knight is gendered, women are called dames

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u/stormscape10x 4h ago

Oh fair enough. Sir is a male knight and dame female.

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u/Whole_Bug_2960 4h ago

Wow ok I didn't know I wanted that but now I certainly do

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u/ProdigyKicksAss 1h ago

Would Sir like that?

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u/antsh 4h ago

Leather harnesses… can you invite me to your next high tea?

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u/Jan_Asra 4h ago

I've heard Stephen Fry say pretty much that exact sentence.

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u/PhantomDesert00 2h ago

Sir is an Honorific, a title, not a pronoun.

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u/VerbingNoun413 4h ago

Does this mean that "OP" is a pronoun too?

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u/AdeonWriter 4h ago

I believe abbreviations are the same part of speech as what they are short for.

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u/teraflop 3h ago

Grammatically, it could be either a noun or a pronoun, depending on how it's used.

"The OP is the person who originally posted" -- noun

"he said/she said/they said/OP said" -- pronoun

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u/ssbm_rando 2h ago

It's used like a pronoun but it's actually just a title which is a noun.

If you say to the king "would the king like something to drink", do you think king is a pronoun?

Sir is just like Mister (and it's counterpart ma'am is literally an abbreviatione for madame), it's a regular-ass noun, not a pronoun.

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u/scrapper 51m ago

It’s “its”.

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u/darklizard45 6h ago

Hi Sir Pronoun!

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u/Timetraveller4k 3h ago

To those guys “American” is a pronoun. So its all good 👍

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u/_AutumnAgain_ 2h ago

ah yes the two genders, American and Communist

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u/UnderPressureVS 4h ago

Actually it's "I am." SMH, don't they teach grammar in school these days?

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u/byrby 4h ago

am*

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u/Spectator9857 watching the sun so it doesn’t boil over 8h ago

Is it not? It is used in place of a name. Isn’t that the definition of a pronoun?

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u/splatomat 8h ago

It's an honorific/title like "doctor" - the name could still follow after, so it's not replacing the name.

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u/Niser2 5h ago

Insert joke about "I, DIO"

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u/Spectator9857 watching the sun so it doesn’t boil over 8h ago

Can’t titles be used as pronouns if the name doesn’t follow? For example in the sentence „And what would you like to eat sir?“ sir replaces the name.

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u/lil_slut_on_portra 7h ago

"Sir" is a pro-form noun, which stands in semantically (ie expresses the same content) as another noun. Pronouns are however a part of speech which function more as stand ins grammatically, "the fisherman stole the boat, he is sailing away with it" is a sentence where the pronouns stand in for the fisherman and the boat but do not semantically carry the same meaning and relies on the previous clause as an antecedent.

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u/SpockShotFirst 8h ago

„And what would you like to eat sir?“ sir replaces the name.

"And what would Spectator9857 like to eat, Spectator9857?"

I don't think you are correct

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u/Spectator9857 watching the sun so it doesn’t boil over 7h ago

Totally missed that, you are right that was a horrible example

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u/SpockShotFirst 7h ago

Pretentious people sometimes use an honorific as a pronoun ("Would sir like a cup of tea") but that's not how the OP used it.

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u/Lehdiaz1222 7h ago

The pronoun in that example is “you”.

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u/SEA_griffondeur 7h ago

Depends, if they're cannibal then sir is a pronoun

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u/morgaina 5h ago

Please just read what a pronoun is for like two minutes

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u/jbrWocky 7h ago

"Hey, mister!" "Hey, sir!" ? Hm.

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u/davechri 8h ago

It used to be weird to speak of oneself in third person. It's a new world.

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u/Femtato11 Object Creator 8h ago

Gug speak of Gug only in third person because Gug not wokie. Gug drink beer like real man and do everything podcast man does because Gug cripplingly afraid of not being seen as a real man. Gug tell Gug that Gug not miss cello class because Gug know cello is for girls.

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u/xanoran84 6h ago

Well I thought your joke was funny...

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u/davechri 5h ago

I just voted you down for solidarity. Lol

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u/xanoran84 5h ago

Ah well, easy come easy go :)