On 9/4/2014 3:14 PM, Mike Looney wrote:
> I posted this to one of the face book Traveller groups, so you may
> have seen it.  I'm looking for as much input on this as possible.
>
>
> Semi random question about pronouns. I'm in the process of doing a
> weapon and vehicle book. For Reasons, I don't want to use the English
> generic "he/him/his".
>
> I have, at this point what I think are two primary options.
> 1) use she/her/hers (which given that lead example character is a
> female human makes some sense) or
> use Spivak LambdaMOO pronouns. This does have the force of history
> behind it, given it was made for gaming with. Any thoughts?
> https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spivak_pronoun

Stay with the traditional methods and don't get cutsey and try to be
politically correct/neutral.  Nothing aggravates me more than to be
reading a manual (game book, technical manual, or something else) where
they jump back and forth between masculine and feminine or try to go a
different route and be cute and go some PC route.  In those cases my
tolerance drops to almost nil and unless the material is outstanding in
every other way, I tend to get very critical and often lose interest.

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