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Pronouns in D&D - How should gender be handled?
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<blockquote data-quote="am181d" data-source="post: 6211153" data-attributes="member: 3576"><p>A few additional thoughts: </p><p></p><p>1: When the late William Saffire discussed this topic with the late Chief Justice Rehnquist (though not in specific regard to D&D), the Chief Justice's solution was to rewrite the sentence to use the third person plural they.</p><p></p><p>2: The third person singular they, while nonstandard, has been in use in the English for hundreds of years, appearing in the works of such famed writers as Shakespeare and Jane Austen. (Though only when writing for Pathfinder.)</p><p></p><p>3: The best long term solution would be to standardize third person singular they, but it's not the best solution for short term clarity. (Some readers will have trouble distinguishing the two uses of they and thus get their pluralizations wrong.) </p><p></p><p>4: Given that, the simplest, most reasonable solution is alternating genders by example. This may ALSO be confusing to readers, but in a socio-normative way rather than a grammatical way. The dude who is weirded out that a passage says "the player gets a +2 to her ride check" has learned a valuable lesson about what the world is like for non-dudes every day. </p><p></p><p>(Also, he gets a bonus to his ride check, so he should quit whining.)</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="am181d, post: 6211153, member: 3576"] A few additional thoughts: 1: When the late William Saffire discussed this topic with the late Chief Justice Rehnquist (though not in specific regard to D&D), the Chief Justice's solution was to rewrite the sentence to use the third person plural they. 2: The third person singular they, while nonstandard, has been in use in the English for hundreds of years, appearing in the works of such famed writers as Shakespeare and Jane Austen. (Though only when writing for Pathfinder.) 3: The best long term solution would be to standardize third person singular they, but it's not the best solution for short term clarity. (Some readers will have trouble distinguishing the two uses of they and thus get their pluralizations wrong.) 4: Given that, the simplest, most reasonable solution is alternating genders by example. This may ALSO be confusing to readers, but in a socio-normative way rather than a grammatical way. The dude who is weirded out that a passage says "the player gets a +2 to her ride check" has learned a valuable lesson about what the world is like for non-dudes every day. (Also, he gets a bonus to his ride check, so he should quit whining.) [/QUOTE]
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