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taking a single pax still reports "them"

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of course it may be the royal "we" and has probably been reported but I thought I'd mention it.
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If you’re referring to “<name> thanks you, and pays you <sum> Cr for delivering them to <planet>.”, that’s perfectly good English, a usage that has existed as long as the English language (and in fact longer), and I’ll have no part in rewriting it to suit idiotic misinformed prescriptivist rules that have no basis in actual usage.

Just saying. :-)
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- my bad -

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Sorry, bit of a hot button there. :-)
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Not at all.

It must have been the specific context I read it in during the game; because I made out like a pedant who was in fact obviously and demonstrably wrong and worse by far, ignorant.
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stardotstar wrote:
I made out like a pedant who was in fact obviously and demonstrably wrong and worse by far, ignorant.
OY....... that's my role!
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TGHC wrote:
stardotstar wrote:
I made out like a pedant who was in fact obviously and demonstrably wrong and worse by far, ignorant.
OY....... that's my role!
Oops. I thought your role was being old? :oops: (Or is this just your primary role, according to the new role-system in 1.70? :wink: )
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usage that has existed as long as the English language
Now that is something we never picked up and we congratulate you.

Seriously, I'm impressed and grateful for this tidbit. Up to now I always grinned and thought that the plural form pronoun was there either in the interest of reducing memory consumption or of reducing the amount of typing - which, however I am sure is the case with many programs!
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Politics moved to Outworld.
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