The inkle Discord channel is the first chattish online community I’ve been active in for many years and while its delightful for many reasons one thing I’m consistently being surprised by is the way people (who I suspect are more internetish than I) use pronouns. They all they
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For years the argument against the they pronoun has been one of convention - oh, it’s too confusing, too vague, too hard to use! But here, in the wild; the battle against they is already lost. It’s so *cool* to see language levelling up, in real time. Aren’t people brilliant?
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And it’s wonderfully accumulative. I do not they very well - it’s convention, you see, I’m not used to it - and I say guys to my children who are not all guys - but on that channel I do better, because the median is doing better
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(And lo, suddenly it’s possible to tell a passing anecdote about a friend who was X and is now Y without getting in knots; because they are and always have been they. It’s magic. It’s an algebra. See the bullshit? The bullshit is factorised away; only substance remains! Tada !)
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Totally agree, especially for younger people it's becoming so much more normalised. Would be neat to have a character in Next Game casually mention they prefer they / them pronouns (apologies if I'm forgetting any in prev games)
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