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Yeah, my point was that as "you" became singular (replacing "thee") there was a grammatical hole left where a plural 2nd person pronoun ought to be, this "y'all" became a thing.

No, we don't. I suppose sometimes it happens by accident, but Southerners call one person "you," a group of people "y'all," and more than one group of people "all y'all." As in, "You (the person I'm speaking to) really played a great game, I'd like to congratulate y'all (your team) on winning...

Are you seriously suggesting that we have to dispense with the distinction between singular and plural in order to avoid "oppression and hatred and bigotry" and some kind of threat every day? You're really going to suggest that keeping that singular/plural distinction is oppressive? If so...

There we go. I should have known--It's not about grammar at all, it's about your ideology.

A quick search provided a number of authoritative pronouncements for and against. The problem with most of them is that these blog posts are making semantic arguments in support of a position on the subject of the "singular they" which the author has already embraced because of politics or a...

Because unless lives are on the line, who cares, right? An example relevant to RPGs is the stat block of an NPC designed to work with another NPC or with a PC. Wizards of the Coast uses "it" for any NPC other than one with a proper name, but I've seen other products that, for whatever reason...

There is a difference between changes in grammar that are simply a matter of style and those which involve substance. For example, in America a corporation is an "it," while in the UK it is more often a "they." Either one refers to a group of people, so there's not much confusion--it is a...

At some point "I could care less, but it's not likely" became a popular phrase. People began using the first bit, with the rest being implied, more than the full phrase, and the next thing you know, "I could care less" became commonly used to say "I don't care very much."

At some point "I could care less, but it's not likely" became a popular phrase. People began using the first bit, with the rest being implied, more than the full phrase, and the next thing you know, "I could care less" became commonly used to say "I don't care very much."

Look, you can call yourself whatever you want to, and as long as I'm informed about what you want to be called I'll try to go along with it out of basic courtesy, but the strictly singular use of "they" is incorrect. Shakespeare made any number of grammatical errors, some intentionally and other...

Nothing? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OGFz9gt0-Fc

I'm a little confused by the implications of recklessness associated with drengr.

I don't know what, if anything, was actually forwarded to Zak by Mike. Do you? Does anyone who is indulging in this "resulting anger" you're justifying? Let's be clear--at the time, Zak was coming under fire for being a tool to people online. That's it. Mike was asked to look into it, and my...

He was quite knowledgeable, for a layman. His knowledge probably came exclusively from secondary sources, which were limited at the time. Since then, we've had the benefit of better archaeology, of people recreating arms and armor from the period to study how they were made, and the HEMA crowd...

One characteristic of your comment is that you clearly don't know what you're talking about. EGG was an enthusiastic student of history, with an encyclopedic knowledge of medieval European armies, weapons, and warfare.

The valuable employee is Mike. Whether a consultant or a play tester, Zak doesn’t appear to have ever been an employee, and striking a credit from new editions of the PHB is hardly throwing someone under the bus. The idea that a company should avoid even an arms-length cooperation with a...

It appears to me that more than a few people were arguing that Mearls should face consequences for someone else's actions. It seems that people looking for something about which to be outraged have found Zak, who provides plenty of transgression to fuel that fire. The problem is that Zak is the...

The World of Greyhawk is different from The Forgotten Realms in large part because of the approach taken by their respective creators. The Realms was first conceived of by Ed Greenwood as a childhood fantasy, a world where his imagination could run wild and populate it with magical people and...

That makes no sense to me. If the "setting" of Saltmarsh is open for DMsGuild publication, and Saltmarsh is described as being on the coast of Keoland (as it should be,) then how is Keoland itself not going to be open, with the pantheons of Oerth, the Citadel of Eight, etc.? I'm more than a...

That makes no sense to me. If the "setting" of Saltmarsh is open for DMsGuild publication, and Saltmarsh is described as being on the coast of Keoland (as it should be,) then how is Keoland itself not going to be open, with the pantheons of Oerth, the Citadel of Eight, etc.? I'm more than a...