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Re: WTF?!
« Reply #75 on: September 05, 2010, 08:40:06 AM »

Since this forum is now moderated I think someone should set up a completely unmoderated one to compete

Of course spam would be sent to its own little corner of hell but apart from that the ignore button works wonders. A forum without trolls is like the earth without air. It will die without it.
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Re: WTF?!
« Reply #76 on: September 05, 2010, 11:07:19 AM »

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Re: WTF?!
« Reply #77 on: September 05, 2010, 12:28:47 PM »

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A written word is the choicest of relics. It is something at once more intimate with us and more universal than any other work of art. It is the work of art nearest to life itself. It may be translated into every language, and not only be read but actually breathed from all human lips; -- not be represented on canvas or in marble only, but be carved out of the breath of life itself.

what a bunch of bullshit
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Re: WTF?!
« Reply #78 on: September 05, 2010, 12:56:37 PM »

zhe and hir are among the two stupidest words in the english language

They're not in the English language. Partly because of a Three Stooges Syndrome between gender-neutral pronouns ('e; zhe; ey; hu; ne; hy; ot; thon; ve; xe; ze; en; co; phe; ad infinitum).

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Re: WTF?!
« Reply #79 on: September 05, 2010, 01:43:39 PM »

Since this forum is now moderated I think someone should set up a completely unmoderated one to compete

This forum was always moderated. I don't know what you thought.
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Re: WTF?!
« Reply #80 on: September 05, 2010, 02:10:32 PM »

zhe and hir are among the two stupidest words in the english language

It's the way zhe would typically want to be addressed, and if I'm going to disrespect hir position, as I do, I'm going to compensate by asserting with certainty that it's not personal--it's objective.



For what it's worth, when not addressing so-called intersex people, I revert back to the default, correct english standard of defaulting to the male gender pronouns.
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Re: WTF?!
« Reply #81 on: September 05, 2010, 02:34:09 PM »

I just call Brede/Attis...

Brede/Attis/Whatever username they are using. We talk regularly on Steam chat and in one on one it's just "You", "Hey sup" or whatever.

I try to avoid saying things like "Dude" or "Listen man" etc.

But I refuse to make up genderless people things or use them.
 
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Re: WTF?!
« Reply #82 on: September 05, 2010, 03:00:31 PM »

To me the distinction is in personally addressing someone.  In the general forms of communication, I'm good with traditional forms.
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Re: WTF?!
« Reply #83 on: September 05, 2010, 08:14:15 PM »

  it
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Re: WTF?!
« Reply #84 on: September 05, 2010, 08:21:44 PM »

How about asking Brede what Brede wants to be called? If its he, we'll call him him, if its she, we'll call her her.
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Re: WTF?!
« Reply #85 on: September 05, 2010, 08:31:03 PM »

How about asking Brede what Brede wants to be called? If its he, we'll call him him, if its she, we'll call her her.

IIRC, that specific diction was in fact the result.
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Re: WTF?!
« Reply #86 on: September 05, 2010, 08:41:35 PM »

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Re: WTF?!
« Reply #87 on: September 05, 2010, 10:37:03 PM »

it.
thats what i'd call '' it''   
if you can't get off the fucking fence, don't expect the rest of ''us'' (normal males & females) to give you some sort of special dispensation.
and don't make us build you a special ,''tri-gendered-can't make-up-my-mind-got-a-cock-and-a-cunt bathroom, like you fucking people have already done.
pick a hole & stick with it
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Re: WTF?!
« Reply #88 on: September 05, 2010, 11:25:27 PM »

OK, I'm no longer suicidal.  (See my brutally honest hissy fit thread at FK.)  Turns out Ian is not a book-burning idiot, he's just greedy and wants to extort money from me.  I can respect that, and I do admit that it was fucking stupid of me not to have made an external backup (though I had my excuses at the time).  Yaay FTL!
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Re: WTF?!
« Reply #89 on: September 05, 2010, 11:29:47 PM »

Ian has extorted money from you?
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