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Just a little weird
Why did you include both the subject and the object pronoun here?
March 8, 2025 at 9:16 PM
"It" here is what we call in linguistics a "dummy pronoun." This stands in opposition to a referential pronoun, which is what we tend to think of when we talk about pronouns - a stand-in for a noun. But "it" in this sentence, as in "it's raining," is an abstraction.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dummy_p...
Dummy pronoun - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
March 6, 2025 at 4:59 AM
I love Alec and he is the only one who has taken this statistic of people who find his videos thru the subscriptions tab and actually speculated on realistic reasons why people might not use it. I wish he had done more - I have (I believe) valid reasons for disliking it. But overall 10/10 content.
February 28, 2025 at 8:25 AM