Re: (OT) What I think that should been done in m-end version 3.0

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On Mon, 30 Apr 2001 22:41:26 +0800 "Bill Gant" <warflail@warflail.com>
writes:
> From: CamaroGen1@aol.com [mailto:CamaroGen1@aol.com]
> Sent: Monday, 30 April 2001 10:27 PM
> > I don;t see
> > the point, in the end, there is no real HE or SHE, rather an IT.  
> If a
> > pronoun offends people so much, I say use IT.
> 
> Hey how about using SHE, HE and IT as a single contracted pronoun? 
> You can
> shrink it down to just S/H/IT.
> 
> LOL  :-D
> 
> Bill
> 

ROFLOL!!!

I think Bill sums up the whole gender/pronoun issue here.

By the way, various other combined forms have been proposed, such as
'jhe' and 'erm',  but they've never caught on.  

An earlier edition of the book (I think)  used 'he' fairly consistently,
but used 'she' when creating female characters - and not the usual
'nurse-receptionist-support' type characters, either.  And I've even seen
'they' used as singular, also.  But like it or not, there really isn't a
non-gender-specific singular pronoun in the English language.  

But is it really that important?  I'm female, a linguist (of sorts), and
fairly militant for Equal Rights, and it doesn't bother me.  Sometimes
you have to just look through the words to the intent.  The fact that ME
includes female player/characters in non-traditional roles is evidence
enough of their good intent.

Ann