Re: BUS: Language Trophies
I apologize for not using spivak at times, I often write hastily on my phone and autocorrect is a . I do try to remember though. I object to the new trophies. On Thu, Jun 29, 2017 at 6:03 PM, Nic Evans wrote: > On 06/29/2017 11:43 AM, CuddleBeam wrote: > > >Also, I miss the time when we mostly spoke Spivak > Spivak is useful to too annoying for me to use lol, mostly because I have > to stop and think about the pronouns I'm using. > I'll keep on using him/she/they as I find most enjoyable, and as a variant > of English (one that doesn't have Spivak), and given our broad language > acceptance, I believe it should be all acceptable. > > This, to my mind, is beyond the pale. The fact that you're unwilling to > 'stop and think' for other people's comfort. The fact that you are either > willfully or ignorantly conflating 'technically acceptable' and 'I can call > people whatever I want and not care about eir feelings'. >
Re: BUS: Language Trophies
On 06/29/2017 11:43 AM, CuddleBeam wrote: >Also, I miss the time when we mostly spoke Spivak Spivak is useful to too annoying for me to use lol, mostly because I have to stop and think about the pronouns I'm using. I'll keep on using him/she/they as I find most enjoyable, and as a variant of English (one that doesn't have Spivak), and given our broad language acceptance, I believe it should be all acceptable. This, to my mind, is beyond the pale. The fact that you're unwilling to 'stop and think' for other people's comfort. The fact that you are either willfully or ignorantly conflating 'technically acceptable' and 'I can call people whatever I want and not care about eir feelings'.
Re: Re: BUS: Language Trophies
>Also, I miss the time when we mostly spoke Spivak Spivak is useful to too annoying for me to use lol, mostly because I have to stop and think about the pronouns I'm using. I'll keep on using him/she/they as I find most enjoyable, and as a variant of English (one that doesn't have Spivak), and given our broad language acceptance, I believe it should be all acceptable.
Re: BUS: Language Trophies
On Thu, 2017-06-29 at 16:37 +, Quazie wrote: > I object to all attempts to award patent titles indicated by the quoted > message - I don't think this is interesting to codify, and it will rarely > get updated I also object. Also, I miss the time when we mostly spoke Spivak; having pronouns that are both gender-neutral and sentience-neutral is useful for being more inclusive of not only all humans, but also bots and artificial legal constructs, many of whom have put in good work for Agora in the past. -- ais523
Re: BUS: Language Trophies
I object to all attempts to award patent titles indicated by the quoted message - I don't think this is interesting to codify, and it will rarely get updated On Thu, Jun 29, 2017 at 09:28 Publius Scribonius Scholasticus < p.scribonius.scholasti...@googlemail.com> wrote: > I hereby intend with 2 Agoran Consent, individual for each pair of a > person and a language they announce that they speak, to award em a patent > title of the form “Trophy of the Speaker”, where is > the language they announce that they speak. > > I announce that for these purposes, I speak English and Latin. > > Publius Scribonius Scholasticus > p.scribonius.scholasti...@gmail.com > > > >
Re: BUS: Language Trophies
TTttPF -Aris On Thu, Jun 29, 2017 at 9:33 AM, Aris Merchant wrote: > On Thu, Jun 29, 2017 at 9:28 AM, Publius Scribonius Scholasticus > wrote: >> I hereby intend with 2 Agoran Consent, individual for each pair of a person >> and a language they announce that they speak, to award em a patent title of >> the form “Trophy of the Speaker”, where is the >> language they announce that they speak. >> >> I announce that for these purposes, I speak English and Latin. >> >> Publius Scribonius Scholasticus >> p.scribonius.scholasti...@gmail.com > > I object to all such intents. > > -Aris
