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Re: What Have You Learned Today?

Posted: Mon Dec 05, 2011 8:56 pm
by Red Devil
that you can actually replace the reserved word, 'class' with the reserved word, 'struct'. and here i thought it was all new magic...

Re: What Have You Learned Today?

Posted: Mon Dec 05, 2011 9:15 pm
by Red Devil
also:

>write illuminati backward in your browser's address bar
>add .com
>go to website
>.... bricks

Re: What Have You Learned Today?

Posted: Tue Dec 06, 2011 8:01 am
by Zenophas
That I need to find a bedroom entertainment center that is of right height with bed.

Re: What Have You Learned Today?

Posted: Tue Dec 06, 2011 8:45 pm
by Iron_Maiden

Re: What Have You Learned Today?

Posted: Wed Dec 07, 2011 12:11 am
by Ded10c
Genderless characters are the hardest to write. For pronouns I have to use either "it", which is too impersonal; "they", which sounds gramatically dodgy; or Spivak (e, em, eir).

Re: What Have You Learned Today?

Posted: Wed Dec 07, 2011 1:09 am
by Axeminister
I thought dickless wonder was the norm?

Re: What Have You Learned Today?

Posted: Wed Dec 07, 2011 2:59 am
by VSMIT
AHadley wrote:Genderless characters are the hardest to write. For pronouns I have to use either "it", which is too impersonal; "they", which sounds gramatically dodgy; or Spivak (e, em, eir).
Genderless meaning that they have no sexual organs, or genderless meaning that they do not identify with any gender?

In the case of the first, you should use whatever gender the character identifies with (character may have been brought up as a specific gender).

Re: What Have You Learned Today?

Posted: Wed Dec 07, 2011 5:39 am
by Zenophas
There's people out there I can trust. But, I have to be sure they're not androids though. Otherwise, they're just trying to turn me into one of them.

Re: What Have You Learned Today?

Posted: Wed Dec 07, 2011 11:47 pm
by Ded10c
VSMIT wrote:
AHadley wrote:Genderless characters are the hardest to write. For pronouns I have to use either "it", which is too impersonal; "they", which sounds gramatically dodgy; or Spivak (e, em, eir).
Genderless meaning that they have no sexual organs, or genderless meaning that they do not identify with any gender?

In the case of the first, you should use whatever gender the character identifies with (character may have been brought up as a specific gender).
Both. Due to the nature of the story, they were never really "brought up" at all. They were a test for a genetically engineered human subspecies. They're (/it's/e's) also aniridic (or possibly heterochromic, not sure yet) and completely alopecic.

Re: What Have You Learned Today?

Posted: Thu Dec 08, 2011 6:56 am
by Zenophas
That a friend of a friend may be out of mercenary work, now that Qaddafi's regime is defeated. Dictatorships are profitable for some and give good benefits. Guess the door-to-door house visits and setting fire to a village's child population to establish the dominance of the said regime is a bit questionable... but, eh.

If I wasn't so frail... I'm better off in the porn industry anyway.

Re: What Have You Learned Today?

Posted: Thu Dec 08, 2011 10:23 am
by Red Spot
Zenophas wrote:If I wasn't so frail... I'm better off in the porn industry anyway.
Just learned there is a job I havent yet tried :D

Re: What Have You Learned Today?

Posted: Thu Dec 08, 2011 6:01 pm
by Ded10c
Bit of an awkward thing to bring up, Zeno.

Re: What Have You Learned Today?

Posted: Thu Dec 08, 2011 6:04 pm
by VSMIT
AHadley wrote:Both. Due to the nature of the story, they were never really "brought up" at all. They were a test for a genetically engineered human subspecies. They're (/it's/e's) also aniridic (or possibly heterochromic, not sure yet) and completely alopecic.
Wonderful. You just have to make everything difficult, don't you?

Re: What Have You Learned Today?

Posted: Thu Dec 08, 2011 6:10 pm
by Ded10c
It's that kind of story. I'm leaning towards using singular they and it, since Spivak is so obscure.

Re: What Have You Learned Today?

Posted: Thu Dec 08, 2011 6:31 pm
by Zax
AHadley wrote:It's that kind of story. I'm leaning towards using singular they and it, since Spivak is so obscure.
Make a pronoun up :)