| comex on Mon, 5 Jan 2009 16:39:36 -0700 (MST) |
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| Re: [s-d] [s-b] Proposal: Eliminate inappropriate plural pronouns |
On Mon, Jan 5, 2009 at 6:32 PM, Craig Daniel <teucer@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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...) >> >> That is to say, every single self-reference in the game has to be of >> the following form? >> >> subjective: he himself/she herself >> possessive: his/her own >> objective: himself/herself > > "They" works too, in the vast majority of cases. Name a single case where the "their macks" crap doesn't hold. To perform a Game Action, an Outsider must post a message to a Public Forum specifying that the Rules are taking that action!!! _______________________________________________ spoon-discuss mailing list spoon-discuss@xxxxxxxxx http://lists.ellipsis.cx/mailman/listinfo/spoon-discuss