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Does this mean #denticide will be automatic?
about 6 months ago from web-
@fontana ref to e14n? I also find that !disturbing. But I like the word anyways.
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Evan Prodromou and Christopher Allan Webber like this.
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@cwebber no, skeumorphism is the ultimate. nevermind that "dent" isn't even a really valid verb at the moment since the…
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@reality gotcha!
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Ohhhhhhhhhhhh
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@cwebber oh oh, let's incorporate #Persona! "I am not sure if federation is working; I #pumped eir #Persona, but it didn't make a #dent!"
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@maiki Is "eir" a neutral third personal possessive intended to be less blunt that "its"?
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@csolisr not sure how to answer that. When you say it like that, it could mean you think "its" is fine, otherwise, why …
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@csolisr I think "they" and "their" are fine to use, those words indicate singular as well as plural. However, language…
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@csolisr I hope that suffices for an answer. In person I often have adversarial and aggressive tones directed at me, so…
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@maiki All the opposite. I'm all in for neutral, compact pronouns as long as they're easy to integrate with the "living" language.
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@maiki By your site's URL, I suppose you know Spanish. A gender neutrality proposal I wrote some time ago: http://wp.me/p2Nu7p-1Z
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@csolisr awww... now I wish I wasn't addicted to domain hacks! An additional way to read the domain is that maiki "do n…
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@maiki I could swear it was a variant in "Da Notes", but anyway. Unfortunately, since you know no Spanish, the post is untranslatable. Sob.
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@csolisr it is denotes, as in a denotation. I have a friend that will probably be able to read the post to me. ^_^
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@csolisr entiendo une muy poco espanol, pero tu proposicion es muy claro y bueno.
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@mlinksva Spanish has many 'tricks' for neutral speaking. But, anyways, they're strange in common language.
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@ghmorales interesting. also, I didn't get @csolisr's mention of sounding like Vincente Fox till I read http://ur1.ca/c5co2
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@mlinksva I know. Fox was a very strange president.