taking a single pax still reports "them"

stardotstar · Post by **stardotstar** » Sun Mar 16, 2008 12:47 am

of course it may be the royal "we" and has probably been reported but I thought I'd mention it.

JensAyton · Post by **JensAyton** » Sun Mar 16, 2008 9:11 am

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. :-)

stardotstar · Post by **stardotstar** » Mon Mar 17, 2008 9:36 am

- my bad -

JensAyton · Post by **JensAyton** » Mon Mar 17, 2008 4:23 pm

Sorry, bit of a hot button there. :-)

stardotstar · Post by **stardotstar** » Tue Mar 18, 2008 2:46 am

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.

TGHC · Post by **TGHC** » Tue Mar 18, 2008 9:36 am

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!

Commander McLane · Post by **Commander McLane** » Tue Mar 18, 2008 10:56 am

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?

(Or is this just your primary role, according to the new role-system in 1.70?

)

davcefai · Post by **davcefai** » Tue Mar 18, 2008 6:31 pm

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!

JensAyton · Post by **JensAyton** » Wed Mar 19, 2008 5:34 pm

Politics moved to Outworld.