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::::::Sorry i could not see any argument? Concede defeat? Dictionary is kinda the winner on this, it is a word, and not even a tricky use of a word. And about it being only for lower case god, that's not true either. I bet you would write the following sentences. | ::::::Sorry i could not see any argument? Concede defeat? Dictionary is kinda the winner on this, it is a word, and not even a tricky use of a word. And about it being only for lower case god, that's not true either. I bet you would write the following sentences. | ||
::::::*I like the god with the Nickleback t-shirt. I like HIS taste in music. | ::::::*I like the god with the Nickleback t-shirt. I like HIS taste in music. | ||
− | ::::::*I like the god in the | + | ::::::*I like the god in the bachelorete party with a pink feather boa. SHE relay looks like she is ready for a good time. |
::::::*I like the Snake God. IT would look good with an argyle vest, pleated pants, suspenders and a bow tie. | ::::::*I like the Snake God. IT would look good with an argyle vest, pleated pants, suspenders and a bow tie. | ||
::::::*Ohh, look at the cute baby god I can never have one because I am shooting blanks. Is IT a girl or a boy? | ::::::*Ohh, look at the cute baby god I can never have one because I am shooting blanks. Is IT a girl or a boy? | ||
::::::As you can see it is all about assumed gender and audience, you just assume you know what God is. Read closely and after you notice i broke every rule suggested, and wrote the sentences as you would have wanted them :), maybe we should go by the dictionary.[[Special:Contributions/108.162.240.55|108.162.240.55]] 20:05, 3 July 2015 (UTC) | ::::::As you can see it is all about assumed gender and audience, you just assume you know what God is. Read closely and after you notice i broke every rule suggested, and wrote the sentences as you would have wanted them :), maybe we should go by the dictionary.[[Special:Contributions/108.162.240.55|108.162.240.55]] 20:05, 3 July 2015 (UTC) | ||
::::::One last thing She/he is not even a word as / is not a letter. [[Special:Contributions/108.162.240.55|108.162.240.55]] 20:19, 3 July 2015 (UTC) | ::::::One last thing She/he is not even a word as / is not a letter. [[Special:Contributions/108.162.240.55|108.162.240.55]] 20:19, 3 July 2015 (UTC) | ||
− | + | ::::::I never added s/he; that was someone else who, like me, thought "it" was unnatural. But, would you say it's isn't a word because ' isn't a letter? First off, don't tell me about dictionaries if you can't spell "really", "bachelorette", capitalize "I", and so on. As one who has studied two foreign languages very deeply, Japanese through current materials and Latin through materials using very antiquated English, I have learned that using special-case dictionary definitions creates incomprehensible text unless you are using them in the correct context. You are using it in the incorrect context for this situation. The first two examples are irrelevant because I never said lower-case god was required to be genderless. I disagree with the capitalization of the third one. If it were a proper noun, we would know the gender. If it were truly genderless, that would not be an exception. The fourth one falls perfectly in line with the rules of English, which I laid out; the sentence you used "it" in was a direct question. The three addenda I would add to that rule, although you haven't addressed them, are: "it" can be used for identification ("it's John", "it was a strange man from Boston"), as it has some extra declarative force; we can freely refer to animals as "it", probably partly because it's so hard to sex some animals, and partly because we don't like to anthropomorphize our food; children can sometimes be called "it", as in "The child opened its eyes". Show me an example of real, published English that breaks this rule, and you may have a point. So far, you have nothing. | |
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::::::If you ever referred to your wife or husband as "it", you may be in trouble. If you refer to someone not of your race as "it", you sound extremely racist. If you call a politician "it", you are making a political statement. Using "it" to refer to a transgender person is extremely offensive. This isn't really that hard. [[Special:Contributions/108.162.220.161|108.162.220.161]] 13:35, 4 July 2015 (UTC) | ::::::If you ever referred to your wife or husband as "it", you may be in trouble. If you refer to someone not of your race as "it", you sound extremely racist. If you call a politician "it", you are making a political statement. Using "it" to refer to a transgender person is extremely offensive. This isn't really that hard. [[Special:Contributions/108.162.220.161|108.162.220.161]] 13:35, 4 July 2015 (UTC) | ||
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Margaret is kinda hot. | Margaret is kinda hot. | ||
Is it normal to be sexually attracted to an xkcd character ? {{unsigned ip|173.245.49.29}} | Is it normal to be sexually attracted to an xkcd character ? {{unsigned ip|173.245.49.29}} | ||
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[[Special:Contributions/108.162.221.87|108.162.221.87]] 14:09, 29 June 2015 (UTC) See also title text of comic [[1354: Heartbleed Explanation]] | [[Special:Contributions/108.162.221.87|108.162.221.87]] 14:09, 29 June 2015 (UTC) See also title text of comic [[1354: Heartbleed Explanation]] | ||
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So was I totally off thinking this may have had something to do with Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice teaser trailer where graffiti "False God" on a statute of Superman. Batman stares at Superman, saying: "Tell me, do you bleed? You will." [[Special:Contributions/108.162.221.29|108.162.221.29]] 04:47, 1 July 2015 (UTC) | So was I totally off thinking this may have had something to do with Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice teaser trailer where graffiti "False God" on a statute of Superman. Batman stares at Superman, saying: "Tell me, do you bleed? You will." [[Special:Contributions/108.162.221.29|108.162.221.29]] 04:47, 1 July 2015 (UTC) | ||
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