Re: [TML] Some thoughts on Pronouns Jeffrey Schwartz 04 Sep 2014 19:59 UTC

Oh, well played sir, well played indeed.

On Thu, Sep 4, 2014 at 3:42 PM, greg caires <xxxxxx@gmail.com> wrote:
> And for K'Kree its always "they/their/them"?
>
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> On Thu, Sep 4, 2014 at 3:14 PM, Mike Looney <xxxxxx@megawatts.com> 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
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