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your my yallo

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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.

JT "their my" nonsense

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Another example of the "your my" nonsense produced by corporations calling customers' things "my" things. Let's mark this for pronouns: In total, I've identified 12 correct pronouns, 6 incorrect pronouns, given from the wrong perspective, and one direct clash between a correct one and an incorrect one, in the form of "their my JT account".  This should be a dead giveaway that something is wrong. As well, observe this perfunctory, bossy, yet passive tone that they take.  "all customers are required" to such and such.  Let's try this.  "All telecoms providers are required to provide ipv6 service".  Oh, that didn't work.  "All entities are required to desist from calling other entities' things 'my'".  Oh, that didn't work either. This is the real pronoun crisis.