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by PRINCE WILLIAM » Sat Apr 30, 2022 7:09 pm
by GracchusBabeuf » Thu Apr 28, 2022 2:23 am
MerryBBuck wrote: ↑Thu Apr 28, 2022 2:00 am GracchusBabeuf wrote: ↑Thu Apr 28, 2022 1:34 am gimix wrote: ↑Wed Apr 27, 2022 2:21 pm @native speakers... someone once told me that all country names are feminine in English (this is not the case in other languages: in Italian for instance Galles [Wales] is masculine while Scozia [Scotland] is feminine). Nouns aren't really gendered in English. Even if they have a technical gender it doesn't have any effect on speech, since "the" is the same no matter what. I agree. In my native English, I normally hear the "neuter" pronoun 'it' for all countries. I have heard "she" used for countries, cities, and states, but very rarely, and there's always an emotional or poetic context. I've never heard a country referred to as "he". Another place gender creeps into my English is with some animals. I often hear (and say) the pronoun "he" for a dog when I don't know the dog's actual gender, and similarly "she" for a cat. Maybe that's just me.
GracchusBabeuf wrote: ↑Thu Apr 28, 2022 1:34 am gimix wrote: ↑Wed Apr 27, 2022 2:21 pm @native speakers... someone once told me that all country names are feminine in English (this is not the case in other languages: in Italian for instance Galles [Wales] is masculine while Scozia [Scotland] is feminine). Nouns aren't really gendered in English. Even if they have a technical gender it doesn't have any effect on speech, since "the" is the same no matter what.
gimix wrote: ↑Wed Apr 27, 2022 2:21 pm @native speakers... someone once told me that all country names are feminine in English (this is not the case in other languages: in Italian for instance Galles [Wales] is masculine while Scozia [Scotland] is feminine).
by MerryBBuck » Thu Apr 28, 2022 2:00 am
by GracchusBabeuf » Thu Apr 28, 2022 1:34 am
gimix wrote: ↑Wed Apr 27, 2022 2:21 pm @native speakers... someone once told me that all country names are feminine in English (this is not the case in other languages: in Italian for instance Galles [Wales] is masculine while Scozia [Scotland] is feminine). So the correct way of speaking would be to always use feminine pronouns, something like "If France moves her army to Burgundy I will be mad at her"
by Ginge86 » Wed Apr 27, 2022 6:05 pm
by Jamiet99uk » Wed Apr 27, 2022 5:42 pm
by MerryBBuck » Wed Apr 27, 2022 5:21 pm
by Octavious » Wed Apr 27, 2022 3:56 pm
by Doom427 » Wed Apr 27, 2022 3:41 pm
by gimix » Wed Apr 27, 2022 2:21 pm
by dargorygel » Mon Apr 25, 2022 10:32 pm
Octavious wrote: ↑Mon Apr 25, 2022 6:22 pm Fair enough. It'll be interesting to see how much demand there is
by Yonni » Mon Apr 25, 2022 8:10 pm
by Octavious » Mon Apr 25, 2022 6:22 pm
by dargorygel » Mon Apr 25, 2022 6:03 pm
Octavious wrote: ↑Mon Apr 25, 2022 6:00 pm dargorygel wrote: ↑Mon Apr 25, 2022 5:10 pm similar to name I was unaware that the membership were encouraged to share their names either. Is that something that is also being considered? I confess I rather enjoyed the ability to create whatever persona you wished without any of the intrusive a/s/l? questions you were pestered with on things like Yahoo Pool (for those who remember such things). I would be in favour of the site continuing to default to anonymity rather than the implication that giving personal data was something you had to opt out of.
dargorygel wrote: ↑Mon Apr 25, 2022 5:10 pm similar to name
by Octavious » Mon Apr 25, 2022 6:00 pm
by Jamiet99uk » Mon Apr 25, 2022 5:29 pm
by dargorygel » Mon Apr 25, 2022 5:10 pm
Octavious wrote: ↑Mon Apr 25, 2022 3:27 pm I'm a tad confused. I thought we'd been able to put whatever information we wished to share about ourselves in the comments section of our profile for many years. Is that not still the case? For anonymous games obviously anonymity trumps all. If you're worried about using the wrong pronoun and for some reason find asking difficult then the obvious solution seems to simply avoid them. If you want to refer to the French player, for example, you can simply refer to them as France.
by Octavious » Mon Apr 25, 2022 3:27 pm
by Doom427 » Mon Apr 25, 2022 2:08 pm
GracchusBabeuf wrote: ↑Mon Apr 25, 2022 1:02 am It would probably be best if it was just normalized to say what pronouns you prefer at the beginning of the game.
by DarthPorg36 » Mon Apr 25, 2022 1:26 pm
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