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And "meal" and "meal" come from different roots.

"meal" (n. 1) as in "food, time for eating", is from *me-, "to measure".

"meal" (n. 2) as in "edible ground grain", is from *mele-, "to crush, grind".

etymonline.com/word/meal

nb erasure, a common mistake 

@Fenreliania (it wasn't prompted by you, it was prompted by me making a similar mistake, and by a DM)

nb erasure, a common mistake 

if your reaction to the gender binary is to take the male/female binary and turn it into a line from male to female with "agender" in the middle, you... have missed the complexities of how gender actually works...

you need a two dimensional graph at the very least

@grainloom woah that's a lot more language features than I usually see..

usually the language features are just "I want this bit of experimental, unofficial syntax" and you only add 1 or 2 of them...

gender, nb erasure 

@radtabby I'm a nonbinary girl, and while a lot of my cis friends get the girl part, they don't get the nonbinary part... so I've had incredible whiplash over the past 6 months from "exclusively masculine language" to "exclusively feminine language" and it feels... fake and bad.

it feels like they're humoring me, rather than treating me like a person...

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