Flutes expectation: A bunch of girls who talk about the cute boys in the percussion section
Flutes reality: A bunch of girls who try to kill each other over first chair, the one guy in the section just plays Zelda songs all the time.
Clarinets expectation: Kinda the nerdy quiet people.
Clarinets reality: They’re still quiet, but because they talking shit the whole time.
Saxophone expectation: Idiots playing sexy sax man thing all the time.
Saxophone reality: Idiots playing sexy sax man thing AND the epic sax man solo
Oboe expectation: Dorky kid who takes 6 AP classes.
Oboe Reality: Out of tune dork who takes 6 AP classes, overall really nice people. Trust the oboe with your life, just not with intonation.
Bassoon expectations: Probably plays DnD and hangs out with the saxophones.
Bassoon reality: Plays DnD with the low brass.
Low Brass expectation: The foundation of the band so they have to be put together
Low brass reality: wrong. Mix of nerds and stoners, generally pretty funny.
Horns expectation: plays great, never heard them play a wrong note. Quiet, keeps to themselves, no ego.
Horns reality: Stopped playing after the first 10 bars of only upbeats, plays what the trumpets have because they want melody. Biggest egos in the band, but keeps it on the DL
Trumpets expectation: Plays crazy high notes, giant egos.
Trumpets reality: attempts high notes, fails, thinks they got it, flaunts that they got that note. (no one believes them)
Percussionist expectation: snare rolls, lady killers, sunglasses emoji.
Percussionist reality: Was the director talking to us? no? okay cool, so got any 5’s?
@nonlinnearmotion is the horn one true??? Enquiring string minds want to know.
every time I use “they” to refer to a single gender-unknown person on Tumblr, another piece of my grammar-filled heart shatters, and the pieces scatter at the bottom of hell
“They” has been a singular pronoun for hundreds of years, you melodramatic dipshit.
well… actually… no… they is plural. people use they when they should use he, she, or it.
dense motherfucker, the pronoun “they” is an english equivalent for the third person indefinite singular and has been for literally centuries. it remains morphologically and syntactically plural therefore you don’t need to shit your little pantaloons at compromising your surely rock solid grammar rules.
i guarantee every fuckin time you’ve ever had to refer to a person of an unknown gender you’ve used “they” subconsciously. (“The post clerk gave me a message for you.” “Oh, what did they say?”) but you only have a problem with it when people specify it as a pronoun for themselves because you’re a shitlord i fuckin guess.
grammarized straight into hell
None of the Grammatically Offended seems to have any issue with the fact that ‘you’ is both plural and singular either… How odd.
I mean if someone wanted to be totally in line with the fucking rules, they should resort to the proper pronoun etiquette.
Thee: second person informal address
Thou: second person informal nominative
Ye: second person formal or plural
You: second person formal or plural address.
If you want to insist that rules are rules, you better start theeing everyone except for presidents, kings/queens, and god.
Otherwise modernize with everyone else, including they.
Raf's rants 