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WCDT 3621 to 3625 (27th November to 1st December 2017)
Tova:
Don't get me started on pizza and pineapple
JoeCovenant:
--- Quote from: Tova on 30 Nov 2017, 02:34 ---Don't get me started on pizza and pineapple
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CLEARLY an abomination to life and all matters culinary.
bhtooefr:
--- Quote from: JoeCovenant on 30 Nov 2017, 02:29 ---Yeah... a singular would be a great addition to the language.
Y'see, I find this They/Them thing VERY difficult to take on, because for 50+ years I've been raised to think that calling someone THEY or THEM was unspeakably rude.
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AFAIK, "they"/"them" as singular gender-neutral animate pronouns is actually the safest one to use when gender is unknown or the subject is non-binary. Note that there are some constructs like "ze"/"zir" - newly-coined singular gender-neutral animate pronouns - that some non-binary people prefer, though, but I don't think I've personally seen a single case where such a person found "they"/"them" to be unacceptable.
It's "it"/"its" that are rude, because those pronouns, while actually singular and gender-neutral, are inanimate.
--- Quote from: JoeCovenant on 30 Nov 2017, 02:29 ---(Would make ordering Pizza MUCH easier though!)
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Remember that Hannelore has the power to summon orbital pizza bombardment at the push of a button.
Welu:
--- Quote from: hakko504 on 30 Nov 2017, 01:23 ---
--- Quote from: Tova on 29 Nov 2017, 22:34 ---Maybe not quite this hostile. There's airways some hostility.
It's interesting, I think, that Jeph has chosen to withhold Tilly's preferred pronouns until now. Playing the long game, eh?
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And partly also because the only time someone has referred to Tilly using a pronoun was Dora in 3614, and at that point Tilly was preoccupied with not being killed to notice the error.
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Also Hanners used "she" earlier but Tilly was on the phone. They were given an opportunity to do a gentle correction when Hanners was introducing them to Marten. It's a common way a lot of nonbinary people introduce their pronoun because, "Hi I use They/She/He" isn't still a common thing in most spaces.
Also there are other additions like ze/xe and more but a lot of people get uppity about "inventing words".
blt:
--- Quote from: anahata on 30 Nov 2017, 00:35 ---I'm amused by the way so many posters on this forum were deliberately calling Tilly Taffy while knowing that wasn't their correct name, but have uniformly jumped into line when told to use gender-neutral pronouns.
Is that more important than getting somebody's name right?
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Pretty simple explanation, getting their name wrong was presented as a recurring joke multiple times in the comic so the forums picked up on it. The pronouns weren't.
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