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It's ambiguous. "You are in a dark forest. A disembodied voice speaks to you. They want you to follow." How many voices? Would it have been more correct to sa
by saraid216 13y ago
It's ambiguous.
"You are in a dark forest. A disembodied voice speaks to you. They want you to follow."
How many voices? Would it have been more correct to say "They wants you to follow"? Should you contort the sentence to drop agency, saying "You should follow"? Is the pronoun referring to some group of people not included in this paragraph?
s/They want/Ze wants/ solves all of these questions immediately and simply.
In most cases, it comes down to stylistic preference. Some people like to use "it". Some people like to alternate "he" and "she". My preference is ze/zir/zirself. Some people feel threatened by it, as if someone else coding in a new language means their old standby of C90 is not good enough.
- mseebach 13y ago> s/They want/Ze wants/ solves all of these questions immediately and simply. Hardly 'simply', as it prompted the GGGP to go and Google the term. You're changing some very significant terms in the language, and it's only simple if everybody is on board with the change.
- kghose 13y ago"It". A disembodied voice in a dark forest, regardless of whether you can deduce gender, is most definitely an "it". An "it" I would run away from.