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.
The reality of outside is snowing
“There are more things in Heaven and Earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy.”
It puts the lotion on its skin.
It’s called a dummy pronoun.
wow, rude.
Funny. In French, we call it a “pronom impersonnel”, meaning non-personal pronoun.
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. The context is implied, as another commenter linked to.
Which sentence do you mean?
the one you were talking about not making sense: “it is the case”
you’re both kinda agreeing on the same thing, whatever the “it” is, is understood through context. which when you lack said context, the sentence becomes nonsensical
“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.
“It raining, y’all!” - Bubba
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You don’t live where it snows or rains?
It’s the sky that’s snowing, skys snow, sometimes they rain.
Is this just my left brain?
I kinda of disagree with this as I always felt it refers to Time or the event frame of time
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!)
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.
Whether it’s cold or whether it’s hot, there will be weather, weather or not.
Snow is god scratching his dandruff onto us and rain is him pissing 😌🙏 hope this helps
True but why is this flagged nsfw
Sry. Activated by accident
Downvoted for stupid NSFW tag
They are from the Lemmynsfw instance. Probably automatically applied to any post coming from that instance.
I think I just fat fingered it
