Bard spotting on Bluesky and Reddit 05 July 2024

drow zelensky (@dov.bsky.social):

oh no absolutely no. if there is one thing i will not do it's police how people from countries without something as insane as a nobility arrange the words in conjunctions that include "sir" and "lord" and even "keir"

Faine Greenwood (@faineg.bsky.social):

if there is one traditional aspect of being American I live by, it's absolutely refusing to acknowledge or play along with British royalty and nobility bullshit

Alun Jones (@alun.pw):

We're done with respecting other peoples and their preferred nomenclature already?

Ms. Penny Oaken (@skywitches.net):

Sir, Madam, or Otherwise —

I am one of the kind of rare knurd who can rattle off the blazon of the grant of arms to the regnant of England, Wales, Scotland, and Ireland just by glancing at it, and know the precedence of title well enough to herald.

I made a choice to do that. And a choice to stop.

Ms. Penny Oaken (@skywitches.net):

I made that choice to not use that system because the aristocracy it represents chose to place me and mine below the bottom of the chart, six feet under as it were, for accidents of our births.

In choosing to abolish and tear down such rank prejudice, I chose to abandon its trappings as well.

Ms. Penny Oaken (@skywitches.net):

I will be happy to extend such respect to Keir Starmer, any Peer of the Empire, any Lord or Lady such as they extend to me and mine.

I will not be shackled by their privilege.