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Fantasy Grounds has never, as far as I can recall, had pre-orders for anything.

If only that were true... If only life were that easy. Alas.

Indeed, it seems like all you have to do is ignore the cancel culture crusaders, or better yet mock them. Once you offer a sincere apology to the habitually offended, they'll smell blood in the water and, as often as not, you're done for.

"Townsfolk" is a broad catch-all.

It tends to depend on who the disregarded others are, actually.

No, I do not die on the hill of grammatical purity, even in "certain instances." This all began with me, thinking to participate in an ongoing conversation, saying (I'm paraphrasing) "You can be called whatever you want to, but 'they' is plural." Then politics happened.

The words you use to describe me have no bearing on my humanity, and vice versa. If I call you a pencil, or a keyboard (first things that my eye fell upon,) that says more about me that it does about you. It probably indicates I'm "off my meds."

I probably don't use "thee" and "thou" because (if I had to guess) they fell out of use centuries before I took my first English class. Same reason you don't use them. On the matter of respect, "due regard" is a flexible standard. The regard your feelings are due varies widely based on the...

Clearly, a lot of people here care a great deal about that "cultural baggage," but it wasn't even a topic of conversation back when I was in English classes. Maybe if we focussed more on language as a means of clear communication and less on and exploring the way in which it is an expression of...

Look dude, it's your site so you can say whatever you want--I understand that--but I have to take issue with your characterization. I am not arguing "against the human condition." People's humanity isn't a factor of their genders, their pronouns, or their grammar.

It is neither. It has nothing to do with respect, which is earned and should not be assumed. You're confusing respect with courtesy, which is the reason to address a person in the manner requested. I can call you what you want to be called and have no respect at all for you, just as easily as I...

I think that one came from Florida. It's also the premise of a pretty funny murder mystery novel by Carl Hiaasen, called "Tourist Season."

Can't speak for anyone else, but it definitely went somewhere for me. Specifically, it went away, once it became clear that the proponents of singular use of plural pronouns weren't actually talking about grammar but were instead talking about ideology. I can go around and around on grammar, but...

Maybe to the south of the caves of ice, along the banks of the River Alph. There, the people dine on honeydew and call each other, singularly, "y'all." This is due to being drunk on the milk of paradise.

You're hilarious.

Don't know about Publix, but if the butcher at the H.E.B. said that to me, I'd look around to see who else he was talkin' to. The second quote, well... the Southerner might be talkin' to a single fan, but the reference is to all misguided fans of midwest teams. That Southerner was politely...

It might seem out of step for some, I think it is still pretty common for most. I can assure you that 40 years ago (or 30 years ago, or 20) it was standard practice. My memory hasn't deteriorated to the point that I'd have forgotten that.

A good friend of mine from Iowa went to school here in Texas and picked up "y'all." She uses it enthusiastically, but not always correctly. I don't know about the "Ohio y'all" but down here, if we say "y'all," we mean more'n just you.

That's not an assumption that the player is masculine. "He" is generic and non-specific in that context, like "mankind."

There is a lot less than "near consensus," especially since many of the sources you rely upon are only blog posts related to a grammar reference and not the reference itself. Regardless, it has become apparent that we can't really talk about this as a grammar issue, because for many of the...