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Craig Daniel on Mon, 5 Jan 2009 16:32:11 -0700 (MST)
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Re: [s-d] [s-b] Proposal: Eliminate inappropriate plural pronouns
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- Subject: Re: [s-d] [s-b] Proposal: Eliminate inappropriate plural pronouns
- From: "Craig Daniel" <teucer@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 5 Jan 2009 18:32:06 -0500
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On Mon, Jan 5, 2009 at 6:26 PM, comex <comexk@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 5, 2009 at 1:15 PM, Elliott Hird
> <penguinofthegods@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> Can we have unambiguity without the sexism? (Spivak is not an option...)
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> That is to say, every single self-reference in the game has to be of
> the following form?
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> subjective: he himself/she herself
> possessive: his/her own
> objective: himself/herself
"They" works too, in the vast majority of cases.
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