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WCDT 21-25 January 2019 (3921-3925)

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DSL:

--- Quote from: jwhouk on 25 Jan 2019, 04:16 ---Speaking of trolls - that's exactly what Spookybot is doing.

(EDIT: I'm sorry, my English teacher would have a conniption fit if I said "are" instead of "is".)

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Interesting point -- maybe for a DISCUSS thread? -- if a person prefers their pronoun to be "they", are they grammatically still singular? Will the languages that make such distinctions change to accept their versions of "they is" as proper grammar for a single nonbinary* person?

*Or whatever the non-judgmental adjective is.

Welu:
There's this thread about gender and language

Generally "they are" is acceptable even when referring to a singular, because that's what we're used to I guess. "Are" should be right for Spookbot anyway though since they are some kind of hivemind/multi being.

Stoutfellow:

--- Quote from: DSL on 25 Jan 2019, 12:47 ---Interesting point -- maybe for a DISCUSS thread? -- if a person prefers their pronoun to be "they", are they grammatically still singular? Will the languages that make such distinctions change to accept their versions of "they is" as proper grammar for a single nonbinary* person?

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Well, "you" has been semantically singular (most of the time) for centuries, and it's still syntactically plural.

ChaosWolf:
I am utterly torn on whether I want Spookums to eventually reveal an actual name or not, as it seems they're eding into possibly being part of the regular cast, at least peripherally.  And so far, in-setting, nobody, not even Spook, has given a name to them - "Spookybot" is purely a fan-created moniker.

I mean, on one hand, it would make identification of them easier in conversations and such, but on the other hand, they seem pretty-well stuck with the fan-made name, as awkward a fit as it might be for them to have it used within the comic itself.

zisraelsen:
Spookybot is, at the very least, what Roko calls them.

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