2014.02.11 07:00 - Zeroth pronouns

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    The Guardian for this meeting was Riddle Sideways. The comments are by Riddle Sideways.

     

    Riddle Sideways: good to be quietly sitting
                          --BELL--
    Riddle Sideways: Rereading wiki-logs on Dualism
                          --BELL--
    Riddle Sideways: it has been several years now that the war on pronouns has been going on.
    Riddle Sideways: not sure what actually started it
    Riddle Sideways: nor which straw broke the pronouns back
    Riddle Sideways: There was a noticing that every written sentence began with "I"
    Riddle Sideways: There was the demand for every reference to include a gender pronoun
    Riddle Sideways: There was the number of times one person in another room would yell "What is THIS"
    Riddle Sideways: and not define 'This'
    Riddle Sideways: expect the other to stop, get up and travel to nearby, identify 'This' and answer.
    Riddle Sideways: Then there was the PaB discussion of the use of "We"
    Riddle Sideways: sentences that included "We" when it was possibly not a universal inclusion.
    Riddle Sideways: Only that way from one observers view.
                          --BELL--
    Riddle Sideways: To make a baby step toward non-dualism seeing.
    Riddle Sideways: an experiment began to eliminate pronouns
    Riddle Sideways: special attention to take the "I", "eye" out of
                          --BELL--
    Riddle Sideways: Only 3 years into it, but eliminating as many first-person, egotistic, ownership, separate, dualistic defining pronouns has made a baby step
                          --BELL--
    Riddle Sideways: being careful with every sentence is very time consuming
    Riddle Sideways: re-writing, editing
    Riddle Sideways: not sure how to report finding of this experiment
    Riddle Sideways: is still on-going
    Riddle Sideways: hardest and not done yet is the elimination of "You"
    Riddle Sideways: that seems important, but also hardest

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    Isn't it funny how a gender specifying pronoun gets attached to SL avatars.
    Labeling with a male or female pronoun because an avi 'looks' a gender is over assumptive. Yet probably exactly what is desired. (BTW - SL makes it nearly impossible to be unisex). It would be worse to use a gender pronoun targeting the typist's gender due to some secret knowledge you have :)
    Just seems easiest to put the name in a sentence and not include a pronoun.
    Posted 02:49, 14 Feb 2014
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