I won’t claim that “my/his/her…” are purely adjectives, but I will make the claim that they’re as much adjectives as they are anything else.

Fair, but in that case, when the context is fairly clearly about adjectives as opposed to pronouns, saying “Well, actually…” is just pedantic nerdery…

And I’m so here for it.

They’re their own special class of word, but they follow more adjective rules than noun rules, so you’ll see them called all kinds of things

Does that make the present participle (progressive) forms of verbs like “writing” adjectives too, because they’re used like adjectives rather than like verbs (“I am tired”, “I am writing”, not “I writing”)? Does it make gerunds (unfortunately identical with present participles in English) nouns because they’re used like nouns (“I like cats”, “I like writing”)?

They’re each their own class of word, neither strictly verb (despite being verb forms) nor adjective / noun (despite being used similarly) and I think we should treat them as such.

I learned them in line with the declension of pronouns as analogues of nouns (which is generally less significant in English): I, my, me; you, your, you; he, his, him; she, her, her; it, its, it and so on. In some languages they have adjective-like declensions, but I think calling them adjectives is imprecise, because they’re more than that: They generally don’t make much sense without something they’re substituted for.

For first and second person, that isn’t immediately obvious, but for third person, you can probably see what I mean: “Her car is rusty. Its tires are flat.”
We can infer that “Its” refers to the car, but “Her” doesn’t tell us anything useful if we don’t know who that “She” is. That is a trait of pronouns: They’re substituted pro nomine.

I can say “tired cat” and it is a semantically complete. “Her car” isn’t.

Hence: I concede that they’re not purely pronouns, but rather pronouns with characteristics of adjectives. Their semantic intention is still to reference some other noun in the context, so I don’t think it’s fair to call them adjectives either.

You mean possessive pronouns? Because those aren’t adjectives. They’re a stand-in for a name: “Jane’s car” - “her car”

Just because Americans bastardise our pronunciation or spelling doesn’t make “Weiner” the correct spelling for that pronunciation.

I’ve got plenty of non-meme judgement to give

WE GOT YOU COVERED, BROTHER, BUT WE’LL MISS YOU! HOPE YOU FEEL BETTER SOON SO WE CAN CRANK TOGETHER AGAIN!

Mea sunt ille/illa/illud

How so? “her” isn’t an adjective

I think you missed the part where the common user won’t activate the scary feature that allows them to run arbitrary apps. You, as a dev, are in the minority. The point is that you could make a great app almost nobody would (be able to) use because you didn’t pay Apple to let them run it.

And push messages being an advanced feature is wild.

My mom is a verified source too, but that doesn’t mean I should be trusted not to break your PC…

(By which I mean formatting the disc and installing Mint. The data loss is your fault, really, for not having backups.)

I always read it as being about defying the law (backed by divine enforcement):

His father commanded him to “… fulfill [his] duty to her as a brother-in-law to raise up offspring for [his] brother”, which implies that this was considered a legitimate obligation. His transgression, then, was that he pulled out “to keep from providing offspring for his brother”, actively refusing to fulfill that obligation. In that reading, it’s a tale about obeying the orders and customs of your elders.

Of course, these don’t have to be exclusive: “These norms exist for a reason, so you should damn well obey them.”

Karaoke is kinda like improv comedy: You need an easy, quick setup, then a punchline that’s also easily understood, but not too crude. High-brow comedy has a place, but a low-brow club generally isn’t it.

For Karaoke, the song is the setup, so ideally you’ll pick a well-known one, while the punchline is the mediocre singing. Singing well is like telling an anecdote: interesting, for the right audience, but not what people go to Karaoke for. Take too long to get to the funny part and the anticipation is gone. Sing too poorly and it becomes unpleasant rather than funny.

You can be good at Karaoke as a form of entertainment without strictly being an actual good singer, if you nail that balance and deliver it well.

I’m not a mom, just someone who spent their afternoons after school daydreaming, dissociating, escaping to some place where I was important and could change things.

hug

Wouldn’t mixing up Greek loanwords be fucked up Grenglish?

I don’t know if you’re making up shit for the joke, but if you’re not, can I offer you a hug or my sympathies?

This looks like an AI summary of the wordnik collection of definitions put forth by a bunch of different sources:
https://wordnik.com/words/defenestration

At the time of writing, these definitions do seem to be in there.

meANALSEX

As subtle ass a pounding

The things people joke or lie about can say a lot about the way they think. My favourite example is the wife of Octavian Augustus, who was claimed to have woven his Toga herself. Whether or not it’s true or just propaganda made up to make her look good, it tells you something about Roman culture that even the elites would praise a woman for doing diligent manual labour.

Transferred to this: Even if it was a joke, the fact it’s a thing that people come up with at all indicates the underlying sentiment you describe. The joke wouldn’t work if it didn’t reference a known phenomenon. It would just be a monk out back with a ladder to us.

She did:

https://lemmy.world/comment/22818782

I’ll stand, thank you.