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[MetalSlimeHunt]

Oh, you can use they for a single person?

Only if you're thug life like me.

I'm even more confused.

Not being confused is nonacademic.

Aren't feminists in arms against this rule?

You haven't seen feminists up in arms until you've seen the radicals who advocate that "woman" should be changed to "womyn". They are always fun to have discussions with.

[Sheb]

It's funny, because in French, we have a grammar rule which is actually expressed as "Male win" and that state that if you have women and men in a group, you should use the male forms. Even if there is on man in a crowd of 100 woman. And no-one ever complained about it.

[Aklyon]

"Womyn"?
Never heard of that. Kinda hope I can continue not to.

[Yoink]

I thought the "womyn" thing was a joke.  If they wanna change their name to anything, how about "Stoves", or "Kitchen Appliance"? [/sexist]

But yeah, I use 'they' as a gender-neutral singular noun all the time. Any rule saying you can't is just, well, silly. Come at me.

[Loud Whispers]

"Womyn"?
Never heard of that. Kinda hope I can continue not to.

Be glad then. A friend of mine once made a sandwich joke to a womyn with very loud vocal chords and too much enthusiasm to use them. I never knew he ran that fast

[Skyrunner]

I think all Romance languages have the 'male win' rule.

Q: would I be persecuted if I somehow devise a program that saves every single avatar on the forums of people who have, say, n number of posts or more, then plug them all in an avatar rotation site so I'm an imposter all the time?

This idea has came from a previous post here.

[Jervill]

What about the people with multiple avatars?  Include them all?

[Skyrunner]

I suppose it would just get the randomized one that was picked to be shown at runtime.
But... no answers? Dx
Not that I have the ability to make such a program 

[MetalSlimeHunt]

Don't make it avatar rotation. Make it one colossal .gif that scrolls at 100 FPS.

[fqllve]

:/ I've never met a linguist who objected to the use of singular they, it's extraordinarily well-attested and has been in use for over seven centuries, which means it actually predates Modern English and was even used by Chaucer (saying Shakespeare used the singular they is an old hat by now). The only people I've ever heard object to it are English professors and people who've read Eats, Shoots, and Leaves too many times. Like just about every other stupid English grammatical "rule" it's just another thing we can chalk up to the early fumblings of Enlightenment grammarians.

[Loud Whispers]

So... What's the question?

[fqllve]

The question is, what should I do if I find a two day old discussion on a topic I am both passionate about and capable of adding information on, keeping in mind that the discussion was all kinds of off-topic? :p

[Loud Whispers]

The question is, what should I do if I find a two day old discussion on a topic I am both passionate about and capable of adding information on, keeping in mind that the discussion was all kinds of off-topic? :p

DOIT

DOIT IT NOW

[NotAQuisling]

Should I resurrect the old Battlefield Academy thread from 2010 or just make a new thread.

[Aklyon]

How useful is the original first post compared to what you could do?