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You brought it up yourself, so I was replying. Anyway, it's ''not'' irrelevant to this discussion to bring up real current grammar, because [[T:GRAM|proper grammar is required and essential here on this wiki]]. | You brought it up yourself, so I was replying. Anyway, it's ''not'' irrelevant to this discussion to bring up real current grammar, because [[T:GRAM|proper grammar is required and essential here on this wiki]]. | ||
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Anyway, for the most part, I think we should look to the texts and/or scripts of the story in question, and if a certain pronoun is used all the time, make use of that. When stories run into conflict with each other in terms of pronouns, though, or pronouns are unclear/unstated, I think we should ''always'' default to they/them pronouns when describing a person. | Anyway, for the most part, I think we should look to the texts and/or scripts of the story in question, and if a certain pronoun is used all the time, make use of that. When stories run into conflict with each other in terms of pronouns, though, or pronouns are unclear/unstated, I think we should ''always'' default to they/them pronouns when describing a person. | ||
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Latest revision as of 22:22, 27 April 2023
You brought it up yourself, so I was replying. Anyway, it's not irrelevant to this discussion to bring up real current grammar, because proper grammar is required and essential here on this wiki.
What I am debating here is that "he" is no longer correct as a gender-neutral pronoun, and should never be used as such. If a story uses he/him pronouns entirely for a character, we use those pronouns, as stated; no problem. But if it doesn't, we do not make that leap.
I was also making the point that "it" is long deprecated, as a personal pronoun, if it was ever accepted as a respectful pronoun for people.
Anyway, for the most part, I think we should look to the texts and/or scripts of the story in question, and if a certain pronoun is used all the time, make use of that. When stories run into conflict with each other in terms of pronouns, though, or pronouns are unclear/unstated, I think we should always default to they/them pronouns when describing a person.
