On 9/4/14 2:35 PM, Kurt Feltenberger wrote:
> On 9/4/2014 3:14 PM, Mike Looney wrote:
>> I posted this to one of the face book Traveller groups, so you may
>> have seen it.  I'm looking for as much input on this as possible.
>>
>>
>> Semi random question about pronouns. I'm in the process of doing a
>> weapon and vehicle book. For Reasons, I don't want to use the English
>> generic "he/him/his".
>>
>> I have, at this point what I think are two primary options.
>> 1) use she/her/hers (which given that lead example character is a
>> female human makes some sense) or
>> use Spivak LambdaMOO pronouns. This does have the force of history
>> behind it, given it was made for gaming with. Any thoughts?
>> https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spivak_pronoun
>
> Stay with the traditional methods and don't get cutsey and try to be
> politically correct/neutral.  Nothing aggravates me more than to be
> reading a manual (game book, technical manual, or something else) where
> they jump back and forth between masculine and feminine or try to go a
> different route and be cute and go some PC route.  In those cases my
> tolerance drops to almost nil and unless the material is outstanding in
> every other way, I tend to get very critical and often lose interest.

I have pretty much decided on using 1st person as much as possible,
female gendered pronouns where discussing unidentified humans and Vargr,
Aslan role based pronouns for Aslan and just use "it" for Hivers and Droyne.

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For Reasons.