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I always thought it was meant to be a phonetic spelling of a colloquial pronunciation of aren't.
can't be because aren't doesn't work in places ain't is used. "I are not going to do that" isn't correct either.
 

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this is a handy source for material to annoy ppl with, uh, if I were so unkindly inclined

having said that, whenever any human refers to a country with a gender as if they're talking about another human. usually the gender is her and the country their origin of birth, but not exclusively. unless you got a really strong east European accent it's just weird and cringe.

noone can use this to annoy me though cos I'd be too aware your unkindly inclinations after releasing this classified information
 

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this is a handy source for material to annoy ppl with, uh, if I were so unkindly inclined

having said that, whenever any human refers to a country with a gender as if they're talking about another human. usually the gender is her and the country their origin of birth, but not exclusively. unless you got a really strong east European accent it's just weird and cringe.

noone can use this to annoy me though cos I'd be too aware your unkindly inclinations after releasing this classified information
Um, would it annoy you too much to post an example? Because I'm not familiar with that, possibly people where I live think it's too annoying to actually ever do.
 
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Um, would it annoy you too much to post an example? Because I'm not familiar with that, possibly people where I live think it's too annoying to actually ever do.
ah, fair enough, there's some western politicians who do it, often some patriotic attempt at flavour/familial emotional threading of rhetoric, and Keir Starmer did some point recently when referring to Israel, which was weirder to hear than usual lol;

"We stand with Israel, and recognise her right to self defence in the face of this aggression."
 

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Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't "motherland" a common anthropomorphizing of one's home country? I mean, I don't see the USA as a "motherland," but it's not an uncommon use to elicit emotional patriotism; who stands against their "mother" outside of insecure incels who blame women for all of their woes?

That said, yes, I agree it is annoying, prescribing undue value to the terra firma one just so happened to exit the womb upon. Look who represents "me" now as the leader of the free world; do you think I've any allegiance to a mass of dirt run by an would-be dictator who would have me believe he actually has any non-self-serving interests? No, this is the USA, stolen from natives, worked by slaves, and founded on selfish capitalist ideals; I'd love o live in a world where no one assigned this land a gender much less demanded my affection calling it my "mom."
 

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Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't "motherland" a common anthropomorphizing of one's home country?
Or Fatherland, depending on which country. But while it's described as such, I personally don't (nowdays) going further with it, using gendered pronouns or whatnot.
 
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this is a handy source for material to annoy ppl with, uh, if I were so unkindly inclined

having said that, whenever any human refers to a country with a gender as if they're talking about another human. usually the gender is her and the country their origin of birth, but not exclusively. unless you got a really strong east European accent it's just weird and cringe.

noone can use this to annoy me though cos I'd be too aware your unkindly inclinations after releasing this classified information
In a lot of languages every noun is gendered.
 
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Aura farming is one of the dumbest terms I ever heard. It sounds like another person trying to sound smart by making it sound and look cool when it really isn't. At least big dick/big clit energy has some pizzazz to it. Making one chuckle or smirk once in a while.
 

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Aura farming is one of the dumbest terms I ever heard. It sounds like another person trying to sound smart by making it sound and look cool when it really isn't. At least big dick/big clit energy has some pizzazz to it. Making one chuckle or smirk once in a while.
Aura farming sounds like something you’d do in a Korean fantasy MMO.
 
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Aura farming is no cap lowkey goated like serving c*** and rizz you up but kinda cringe like big yikes yeet this sus cheugy out fam we bussin
And in "dead-ass", "based", and "sus" and I think you'll have managed to hit peak gen alphas-speak.

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Ohh, and some N-words, so many N-words.
 
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that's not very demure of you, cringe has existed as word for as many decades back as I can remember. Ain't the kids fault no-one bothered inventing alternatives to meet the growing demand a civilisation hell-bent on killing itself through second-hand embarrassment foists upon them. don't be ohio
cos you know as well as I or anyone else here knows....
...it only ever gets worse the next time around
 
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