your my yallo



A dark age is a period for which historians have little in the way of written records, and for which they are thus unable to do much history.  People sometimes speculate on whether we are currently in a dark age.  At first glance, we may appear to have written records, and enough of them will probably be durable enough.  But what if they are gobbledegook, due to confusion around pronouns?

In the pictured example, I found 7 sentences containing multiple pronouns, including possessive pronouns.  In 3 of them, the author takes schismatic perspectives within the sentence, coming out with such howlers as "You can now set a password for my yallo account".  But they are not talking about their yallo account.  They are talking about my yallo account, and from their perspective, talking to me, they should say "your".  Again, this is an aspect of language that two-year-olds should be able to master.

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