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Learn non gender grammar descriptions

pinchyskriipinchyskrii Member Posts: 0 Arc User
edited May 2013 in General Discussion (PC)
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  • nephtnepht Member Posts: 5,826 Arc User
    edited May 2013
    It's like Mass Effect were canon Shepard was male but you could make a female Shep. The canon Trickster Rogue if we remember the CGI for Neverwinter is female. Its actually meaning her not your TR ^__^
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  • nectarprimenectarprime Member, Neverwinter Beta Users, Neverwinter Guardian Users Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited May 2013
    Screw off OP.
  • lerdocixlerdocix Member Posts: 897 Arc User
    edited May 2013
    Let me guess, you will quit the game now?
  • stormdrag0nstormdrag0n Member Posts: 3,222 Arc User
    edited May 2013
    Really the complainers are down to this? there are more important things to worry about than the androgynizing of the Human species.
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  • pzzdachupzzdachu Member Posts: 398 Arc User
    edited May 2013
    maybe the people at Neverwinter are using teh same "rule" as he writers for AD&D did for years. One chapter was male pronoun the next was female.
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  • silence1k1llsilence1k1ll Member Posts: 148 Bounty Hunter
    edited May 2013
    Yes, this is what needs to be fixed in the game.
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  • riven84riven84 Member, Banned Users Posts: 574 Bounty Hunter
    edited May 2013
    If we're going to be anal about grammar…
    pinchyskrii wrote: »
    Learn non gender grammar descriptions
    Learn non-gender grammar descriptions

    You're welcome. Hope you feel stupid now.
  • mmogfailsmmogfails Member Posts: 92
    edited May 2013
    Is there something wrong with the sissification of GFs?
  • postagepaidpostagepaid Member Posts: 125 Arc User
    edited May 2013
    You complain about that and not the choice of trousers being called pants?
  • imivoimivo Member, Neverwinter Beta Users, Neverwinter Hero Users, Neverwinter Guardian Users Posts: 1,682 Bounty Hunter
    edited May 2013
    mmogfails wrote: »
    Is there something wrong with the sissification of GFs?

    Just with holding up her shield.
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  • syberghostsyberghost Member, Neverwinter Beta Users, Neverwinter Hero Users Posts: 2,474
    edited May 2013
    Actually, the only non-gender singular in English for that would be "his". Is the OP really so insecure in his manhood that he can't handle an occasional "her"?
  • nectarprimenectarprime Member, Neverwinter Beta Users, Neverwinter Guardian Users Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited May 2013
    syberghost wrote: »
    Actually, the only non-gender singular in English for that would be "his". Is the OP really so insecure in his manhood that he can't handle an occasional "her"?

    Yes.




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  • ananvilhurtzananvilhurtz Member, Neverwinter Beta Users Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited May 2013
    postagepaid wrote: »
    You complain about that and not the choice of trousers being called pants?

    /thread

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  • stargeezertimstargeezertim Member, Neverwinter Beta Users, Neverwinter Hero Users, Neverwinter Guardian Users Posts: 122 Bounty Hunter
    edited May 2013
    syberghost wrote: »
    Actually, the only non-gender singular in English for that would be "his". Is the OP really so insecure in his manhood that he can't handle an occasional "her"?

    You've basically hit upon the reason. English doesn't have a gender-neutral tense like other languages. Consequently, the "rule" has been to substitute with the typically male pronouns where the gender is otherwise nondescript. Recent efforts in various circles have attempted to make the language more "inclusive", however for the time being the old rule still applies.

    I saw this tip in-game, and although I am something of a grammar purist, this honestly didn't put so much as the smallest of knots in my knickers. Bigger fish to fry or something like that. ;)
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  • elyrielleelyrielle Member, Neverwinter Beta Users, Neverwinter Hero Users, Neverwinter Guardian Users Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited May 2013
    Maybe it was a typo and they just missed the t and i of their.

    I agree though, way to complain about something irrelevant.
  • qaeroqaero Member Posts: 20 Arc User
    edited May 2013
    The OP should "learn" the history of Dungeons and Dragons, it's been done like this forever.
  • drizztstarkdrizztstark Member Posts: 60
    edited May 2013
    he simplest fix

    " ... depending on the class. Trickster Rogues will dodge, while Guardian Fighters will hold up their shields."
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  • stormdrag0nstormdrag0n Member Posts: 3,222 Arc User
    edited May 2013
    syberghost wrote: »
    Actually, the only non-gender singular in English for that would be "his". Is the OP really so insecure in his manhood that he can't handle an occasional "her"?

    It's such an American thing, traveling through Europe, and the mid-east "her" and "She" are used quite a bit and no one has an issue with it.
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  • nephtnepht Member Posts: 5,826 Arc User
    edited May 2013
    Not everyones he OR she one way or another by the OP's logic somebodys gonna get offended :P
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  • chai23chai23 Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited May 2013
    These descriptions are a throwback to the 1970s when the forward thinking TSR crew, the originators of D&D, decided to use male gender pronouns half the time and female gender pronouns half the time when describing situations in their rulebooks.
  • nectarprimenectarprime Member, Neverwinter Beta Users, Neverwinter Guardian Users Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited May 2013
    chai23 wrote: »
    These descriptions are a throwback to the 1970s when the forward thinking TSR crew, the originators of D&D, decided to use male gender pronouns half the time and female gender pronouns half the time when describing situations in their rulebooks.

    And people STILL get mad about it. Pretty amazing.
  • xanos900xanos900 Member, Neverwinter Beta Users Posts: 116 Bounty Hunter
    edited May 2013
    In one loading screen it says ".. the the Underdark.. " FIXX OR I'LL QUIT !!!

    cmon guys... serious?
  • sockmunkeysockmunkey Member Posts: 4,622 Arc User
    edited May 2013
    xanos900 wrote: »
    In one loading screen it says ".. the the Underdark.. " FIXX OR I'LL QUIT !!!

    cmon guys... serious?

    Yes it should be the "The Underdark." The is obviously part of title. :D
  • pinchyskriipinchyskrii Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited May 2013
    "while Guardian Fighters will hold up their shield"

    So hard to work out.

    Just look at all the angry little kiddies raging in defence of this trash heap. Making up straw man arguments in order to create an ad hominem attacks, pathetic. Some of them are reading this as a quit thread and saying "FIXX OR I'LL QUIT !!!" when it's just an image post and nothing else.

    They say "pants" because this game is built by and aimed at whaling Americans and that's the American word for trousers.
  • stormdrag0nstormdrag0n Member Posts: 3,222 Arc User
    edited May 2013
    chai23 wrote: »
    These descriptions are a throwback to the 1970s when the forward thinking TSR crew, the originators of D&D, decided to use male gender pronouns half the time and female gender pronouns half the time when describing situations in their rulebooks.

    Actually it didn't didn't start till the early 90's and Lisa Stevens was the one who first suggested it, and honestly it went over really well with the female D&D players I knew at the time.
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  • noosednoosed Member Posts: 247 Bounty Hunter
    edited May 2013
    sockmunkey wrote: »
    Yes it should be the "The Underdark." The is obviously part of title. :D

    You're not too bright, the the was the problem, not the lack of a capitalized T.
  • angryspriteangrysprite Member Posts: 4,982 Arc User
    edited May 2013
    pinchyskrii wrote: »
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    Really? Are you serious? LOL

    Note the part of the statement that says FOR INSTANCE... Therefore the statement is 100% grammatically correct no matter your sex or country of origin.
  • pinchyskriipinchyskrii Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited May 2013
    nectarprime wrote: »
    And people STILL get mad about it. Pretty amazing.

    Yeah, they get mad by not posting any text at all. Keep making up arguments. Also, keep asking people to leave the game, the faster it gets buried the better.
  • sockmunkeysockmunkey Member Posts: 4,622 Arc User
    edited May 2013
    noosed wrote: »
    You're not too bright, the the was the problem, not the lack of a capitalized T.

    Perhaps. But at least i know what satire is.
  • zieglerzzieglerz Member, Neverwinter Beta Users Posts: 197 Bounty Hunter
    edited May 2013
    stormdrag0n wrote: »
    Really the complainers are down to this? there are more important things to worry about than the androgynizing of the Human species.

    While I agree...I must say that I have hated this since 2nd edition. This insistence to use the feminine because it is chauvinistic to use the masculine is boggling. I guess it is because guys dont really care about grammar. The "proper" solution would be to use gender neutral terms, Their, them, they, the user, what ever.
    But at this point it is akin to complaining about the wart on a orc's <font color="orange">HAMSTER</font> detracting from it's(opps, I mean her) looks.
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