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that you can actually replace the reserved word, 'class' with the reserved word, 'struct'. and here i thought it was all new magic...
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also:

>write illuminati backward in your browser's address bar
>add .com
>go to website
>.... bricks
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That I need to find a bedroom entertainment center that is of right height with bed.
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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).
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I thought dickless wonder was the norm?
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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).
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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Bit of an awkward thing to bring up, Zeno.
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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?
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It's that kind of story. I'm leaning towards using singular they and it, since Spivak is so obscure.
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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 :)
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