If my memory serves, "e" was used to refer to persons, but not to non-person entities that may have person-like characteristics. The Lost and Found Department, for instance, was never referred to with "e" in my memory.
On Thu, 12 Oct 2017 at 13:27 Alex Smith <ais...@alumni.bham.ac.uk> wrote: > On Thu, 2017-10-12 at 11:21 -0600, Reuben Staley wrote: > > This proto is definitely technically superior to the first one, but it > has > > contradictions. One option is to replace "personal" with "third person", > > since "personal pronoun" refers to all three persons of pronoun. > > I just realised we have to be very careful in defining this: "e" > replaces "it" in addition to "he" and "she", at least in cases where we > want to treat something like (say) a rule as a though e were a person, > but doesn't replace the typical plural meaning of "they" (it does > replace singular "they"). > > At present, we'd probably use "e" for the game of Agora as a whole, > given that e's the main holder of Shinies. However, after months/years > of not having any second-class persons, I think that pronoun usage fell > somewhat by the wayside. Maybe we should bring it back. > > -- > ais523 >
