| Craig Daniel on Mon, 5 Jan 2009 16:48:25 -0700 (MST) |
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| Re: [s-d] [s-b] Proposal: Eliminate inappropriate plural pronouns |
On Mon, Jan 5, 2009 at 6:39 PM, comex <comexk@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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!!! Only if you are a retarded monkey. _______________________________________________ spoon-discuss mailing list spoon-discuss@xxxxxxxxx http://lists.ellipsis.cx/mailman/listinfo/spoon-discuss