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Trialia 01/21/18 5:10:28 AM #240:	WhiskeyDisk posted... SusanGreenEyes posted... I still think we should skip gender pronouns altogether. Everyone should be "this person " or "that individual " so we can skip all the zhir/ zhe/ xer/xhe made up words. If you don't know which gender a topic creator is, just call the person TC, or use the person's username. Not to be an ass here because I think this pronoun roulette is silly, but literally all words are made up words. Arbitrary sounds we make with our mouths that we mostly agree as to what they represent. Heh. Yeah, this is kind of my perpetual argument when someone has a go at me for swearing IRL... "they're just words, and whatever meaning words may have are the meanings we chose to give them." It's not a bad one. Susan, I don't think your idea is a bad one either, but you probably know as well as I do that too many people on GFAQs would end up simply defaulting to "he" because they either assume the forums are majority-male or don't care if they're not or if they wind up non-male posters by calling everybody "he" (and in some cases, would openly prefer the forums not to have members who aren't guys anyway, but those tend to be the worst of the lot here). --- Trialia ~ http://unfaithful-mirror.net PSN: Trialia_X / XBL: Trialia <cite>Trialia posted [p:894480336] in Check out ... [t:76187380]...</cite> <quote><cite>WhiskeyDisk posted...</cite> <quote><cite>SusanGreenEyes posted...</cite> <quote>I still think we should skip gender pronouns altogether. Everyone should be "this person " or "that individual " so we can skip all the zhir/ zhe/ xer/xhe made up words. If you don't know which gender a topic creator is, just call the person TC, or use the person's username.</quote> Not to be an ass here because I think this pronoun roulette is silly, but literally all words are made up words. Arbitrary sounds we make with our mouths that we mostly agree as to what they represent.</quote> Heh. Yeah, this is kind of my perpetual argument when someone has a go at me for swearing IRL... "they're just words, and whatever meaning words may have are the meanings we chose to give them." It's not a bad one. Susan, I don't think your idea is a bad one either, but you probably know as well as I do that too many people on GFAQs would end up simply defaulting to "he" because they either assume the forums are majority-male or don't care if they're not or if they wind up non-male posters by calling everybody "he" (and in some cases, would openly prefer the forums not to have members who aren't guys anyway, but those tend to be the worst of the lot here). --- Trialia ~ http://unfaithful-mirror.net PSN: Trialia_X / XBL: Trialia</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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