Lurker > Microelectrode

Beating Zelda II in one sitting without saving or getting a game over

I appreciate the discussion about "they" as a singular, although I do want to remind my fellow posters that I'm also interested in how gender neutrality is possible in languages such as Italian, French, and Spanish.

When learning such a language, I especially enjoy that each noun is assigned a gender: an apple, a tree, the earth, the sea, a cloud, etc. It gives me pleasure to visualize my ancestors, learning about their world, ascribing a male essence or spirit, a female essence or spirit, or even a true neutral, to everything they encountered. To me, it's poetic.

I believe that "preferred pronouns" should evolve through language naturally (e.g. as the word "they" seems to have done), rather than enforced through legislation. I also hope that transgendered people will limit their pronoun preference only to those pronouns that affect themselves, and not take offense to languages which since antiquity have ascribed binary gender to every noun.

It's my every intention to respect the trans community and I'm simply expressing my wish that language neutrality does not spill into existing language. For example, I think Italian should still have male and female nouns, and not "rewritten for the new age" as Class 1 and Class 2 nouns. Not that I hear that happening; I'm just thinking out loud.

I heard recently that gender neutral pronouns (ze, zim, etc.) are supposed to replace gender binary ones

What happens when these students learn European languages? Our classical ancestors embraced binary gender so much that literally every noun is assigned a gender. Do they just not learn it?

The Mighty Morphin Power Rangers opening theme was perfect. In exactly 20 seconds, it explains the bad guys, the good guys, the fact that they morph, and a huge robot. That's it. Then the credits roll. You know all you need to know going into the episode in 20 seconds.

In the first episode, 15 minutes was used to explain why five random teens became rangers. That's really all you needed to get to the action. Think about it. That very concept is absurd. It's best to spend as little time on it as possible. You can spend a lot of time on storytelling, even multiple episodes, but within the context of your own universe. When it comes to explaining why your concept makes sense, there's only so much you can say to convince me to believe it. At the end of the day, it's fantasy.

I heard that the new Power Rangers move has them morph only in the last 20 minutes. Really? This is the same argument I have with video game tutorials that are way too long. That's why I like Dark Souls. Supposedly the new Zelda, too. Just cut the crap and let us get on with it.

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