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Jesus Christ, again? Are you reposting this question with another account because you didn’t like the answers before, or is this honestly a new person?
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Submitted 11 months ago by s0larfl4re@sh.itjust.works to nostupidquestions@lemmy.world
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RampantParanoia2365@lemmy.world 11 months ago
s0larfl4re@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
this was a post before?
caboose2006@lemm.ee 11 months ago
Tell him to work on the context. Where does it usually rain? What usually makes rain? when we use “it” in this context in English we mean the most likely thing “it” could be (and usually that’s like a 90%+ likelihood). If it were raining in the bedroom, that would require a qualifier, like I had to include.
jagged_circle@feddit.nl 11 months ago
Take a picture and send it
ArchmageAzor@lemmy.world 11 months ago
“It” is the weather, and the state of “it” is raining.
jaxxed@lemmy.ml 11 months ago
Rain is falling
Tudsamfa@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Link him Bill Wurtz’s “history of the entire world I guess” and tell him to skip to 2:08
Jikiya@lemmy.world 11 months ago
It is the sky. The sky is raining. Or the clouds, the clouds are raining. Either of those two would be a great answer to what “it” is.
Darleys_Brew@lemmy.ml 11 months ago
Water is falling from the sky?
GregorGizeh@lemmy.zip 11 months ago
Seriously where on earth is your boyfriend from that he doesn’t know rain? That seems absurd, I’m sure even old school desert bedouins are familiar with the concept.
Karl@programming.dev 11 months ago
He probably knows what “raining” is. I think he is just confused by the phrase “It’s raining”. Or … He is just messing with her.
slaneesh_is_right@lemmy.org 11 months ago
Wow you guys must have so much chemistry when you can’t even communicate
FactualPerson@lemmy.world 11 months ago
The sky is crying?
yarr@feddit.nl 11 months ago
“It” is the state of the outdoors
RampantParanoia2365@lemmy.world 11 months ago
🏅
null_dot@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 months ago
It’s sunny. It’s windy.
DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 11 months ago
There’s a surprising amount of people here that don’t know the sky is a genderless noun.
“It’s raining”
“(The sky) is raining.”
null_dot@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 months ago
I don’t think that’s what’s going on though.
If you say it’s hot or it’s cold or it’s windy you’re not referring tp the sky.
schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de 11 months ago
There have been a few explanations of “dummy pronoun” already. What’s going on is that English doesn’t allow sentences without a subject, so an “it” needs to be added even though it doesn’t refer to anything. In other languages, especially pro-drop ones, you can say just “is raining” or “is cold”, ungrammatical in English (also eg German, French).
Witchfire@lemmy.world 11 months ago
In French it’s “il pleut”, which literally translates to “it rains”
Ledericas@lemm.ee 11 months ago
its condensation of dihydrogen monoxide in the atmosphere that gains enough mass and volume to fall to the earth due to gravity.
throwawayacc0430@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
You write a poem to describe the exact meaning behind the phrase…
Thine mother, nature, hath once more shed tears anew;
For mankind hath yet again besmirched the Earth;
Her Thunderous Tempests resound with profound dismay toward her progeny;
Who, having vexed her, now do so for the final occasion.spittingimage@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I’m sure I recognise that cadence. Is that iambic pentameter? (Being the only one I can name.)
DrownedRats@lemmy.world 11 months ago
That reads to me like someones about to get smote by a lightning bolt lol
ada@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 months ago
It sounds like a similar condition I had learning Spanish. In enough, I’d say “It’s hot”. In Spanish, that’s “Hace calor”, which translated literally means “makes heat”. And it was strange to me because I wanted to know what was meant to be making this heat
LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Today it’s 70 here, what’s it there?
nutsack@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 months ago
does he not know what rain is
slazer2au@lemmy.world 11 months ago
It’s not his fault that he was taken away from his mum by his dad to avoid being inducted into a cult and brought to Greenstone where it never rains in the city.
harrys_balzac@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 months ago
What is his native language?
Steve@startrek.website 11 months ago
Maybe try a language you both understand
Hiphophorrah@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Am I the only the one who thought this was a horny call?
Drbreen@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
If you’re in Australia you could try saying, “It’s pissing down.”
thoughtfuldragon@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 months ago
You might also say “rain is falling” as an idiomatic alternative. Or feel free to warp the English grammar to something more comprehensible for him. The only point of language is to communicate after all.
Mac@mander.xyz 11 months ago
I’d probably say that the state of the weather is ‘raining’.
Windex007@lemmy.world 11 months ago
In this and other similar contexts, when “it” isn’t really referring to anything specific, you can kind of consider it to be “The General State of Existence”.
It’s raining.
It’s cold.
It is what it is.
Make the best of it.
It’s Thursday.
It’s Friday.
Friday.
Gotta get down on Friday.
Archangel1313@lemmy.ca 11 months ago
“Outside” works. So does “the sky”. “It” can also represent “today”, or “right now”.
empireOfLove2@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 months ago
Raining is the state of the weather outside. The “it” is implied to be the weather, because nothing else can really be raining.
Zagorath@aussie.zone 11 months ago
A good comment from back when Reddit was good:
It’s what’s called a dummy pronoun, a pronoun that carries no semantic information and is only used to fulfill a syntactic requirement. More generally that’s called a syntactic expletive, although that page says that there’s some argument about whether this particular use of a dummy pronoun falls under that category.
This is a common construction in languages that don’t allow dropping pronouns (non-“pro-drop” languages). German has “es regnet”, French (the only Romance language that isn’t pro-drop, IIRC) has “il pleut”, but in Italian it’s simply “piove”.
hakunawazo@lemmy.world 11 months ago
www.youtube.com/watch?v=_VyA2f6hGW4