Re: [s-d] [s-b] Proposal: Spivak is not English, Episode 2

["Geoffrey Spear" <geoffspear@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Dec 8, 2007 8:52 PM, Ed Murphy <emurphy42@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 0x44 wrote:
>
> > Spivak is not commonly used slang. Further, B Nomic inherently
> > recognizes the inadequacy of English when it comes to neutral gendered
> > pronouns and declares that all pronouns apply no matter the gender of
> > the pronoun. Since we treat all pronouns equally, there is no need for
> > non-standard artificial pronouns.
>
> Disallowing Spivak is not treating all pronouns equally.

I have to agree, and I'm the one who proposed de-Spivakifying the
ruleset in the first place.

I actually joined Nomicapolis and Perlnomic long before B and Agora
despite discovering the latter 2 first specifically because I was
turned off by the Spivak.  My intuition is that I'm probably not alone
in that.  Still, I see no more reason to punish people for using words
that aren't, in my opinion, actual English pronouns than there is
reason to punish whomever proposed a rule with a French title.
-- 
Geoffrey Spear
http://www.geoffreyspear.com/
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