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Started writing a robot pov story (third-person limited pov, the most common for a human protagonist) and realized pronouns are a genuine challenge for realistic (hard sf) non-anthropomorphic robots. Asimov used the R suffix, but stuck to androids so didn’t need to solve it.
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Yeah, roughly. Though not necessarily just social. Any source of variety in a population. Like the classification of ships in Culture novels is mainly by functional role/capabilities (GSV, MSV...)
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i was thinking we could copy from them. i was just reading "against a dark background" where one of the characters is proud to have shortened his name (finally) and the protagonist, lady sharrow, is recognized as such by having a single name.
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