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Jan 13, 2014
| "name" : "Hunter", | ||
| "points" : 3, | ||
| "description" : "You're getting quite used to hunting and killing ...game. For food.", | ||
| "note" : "That ellipsis is placed correctly: it indicates that the thinker takes a second to decide on that term. Hasn't gone all-out Monster yet, but xe's getting there.", |
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kevingranade
Jan 13, 2014
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KA101 means, xe's. Xe is a gender-neutral pronoun invented because english doesn't have one.
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KA101
Jan 13, 2014
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Possessive is xyr, and third-person is xem. Not a common word in USian or UK English, so I'm not offended. Thanks for asking and for the answering. :-)
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hahahalolwut
Jan 13, 2014
Xe is a gender-neutral pronoun invented because english doesn't have one.
It does, though. 'They' is a gender-neutral pronoun.
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kevingranade
Jan 14, 2014
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Left off some qualifiers, sorry. Singular neutral-gendered third-person
pronoun. "They" is plural.
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Dintin
Jan 14, 2014
https://www.princeton.edu/~achaney/tmve/wiki100k/docs/Singular_they.html
Either that or s/he.
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kevingranade
Jan 15, 2014
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I'm not sure what the point of this discussion is. There is technically no
word that fills this role in English, one option is to misuse "they" as
singular, another is to coin a new word "xe", another is to use the awful
"s/he". They all have plusses and minuses. I'm not telling anyone what to
use, just clarifying what the word is.
KA101 commentedJan 13, 2014
Little something for the Carnivores and Beast types post-threshold.
I'll be branching off of this for the feeding behavior at some point, but for the moment, here's the mindset.
Includes fix for prereqs2 trait-changing too.