Submitted 1 month ago by Yareckt@lemmynsfw.com to showerthoughts@lemmy.world
I can’t think of any other ‘it’ that is meaningless. ‘It’ normally refers to something in the sentences context. But in that and in the sentence ‘it rains’ there is nothing that ‘it’ could refer to. The sky doesn’t snow, the weather doesn’t snow and neither do the clouds.
It’s the sky that’s snowing, skys snow, sometimes they rain.
Is this just my left brain?
It’s raining. It’s cold outside. It is the case.
‘It’s raining’ must refer to the same it as the one in ‘it rains’. From that we can gather that the entity referred by ‘it’ must be quite capable as it can do the raining as well as be raining. However ‘It’s cold outside’ could refer to the air as in the air is cold outside. Similarly the ‘it’ in ‘it is the case’ needs some context in a prior sentence or something else in the real world otherwise the sentence doesn’t make sense.
The sentence does make sense, because all the speakers understand what it means.
“It raining” only makes sense if it’s Bubba saying it. In which case he means “It is raining.” He just doesn’t speak English well.
I kinda of disagree with this as I always felt it refers to Time or the event frame of time
That somehow feels right. I still kind of want some phrase that you could substitute for it though. The most correct feeling thing I could think of are seasons as in ‘the summer rains’. But from a logical standpoint a concept that is defined by humans producing something material doesn’t really make sense since a concept isn’t material.
It really becomes time that it’s been made clear about that! It’s unbelievable that it took so long for someone to call out that it’s the time the It is referring to!
(Now I wait for some nerd to clear up each reference point because I only wrote that because I had the first two parte in my head when I reset your reply!)
Whether it’s cold or whether it’s hot, there will be weather, weather or not.
The reality of outside is snowing
Snow is god scratching his dandruff onto us and rain is him pissing 😌🙏 hope this helps
Downvoted for stupid NSFW tag
They are from the Lemmynsfw instance. Probably automatically applied to any post coming from that instance.
Yeah I didn’t know that tbh.
“There are more things in Heaven and Earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy.”
True but why is this flagged nsfw
Sry. Activated by accident
It puts the lotion on its skin.
AbouBenAdhem@lemmy.world 1 month ago
It’s called a dummy pronoun.
rc__buggy@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
wow, rude.
folkrav@lemmy.ca 1 month ago
Funny. In French, we call it a “pronom impersonnel”, meaning non-personal pronoun.