"He Retains the Advantage" - The Importance of Pronouns in Chess

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You can't really say political correctness doesn't exist. All it is to say, is that people will sometimes reject certain statements because they're not psychologically pleasing, or fit a specific agenda. That is a fact of human nature, whether you want to use the term "political correctness" or not.

And people will BS on either side. Some will be too politically correct, others will just complain about political correctness in replacement of an actual argument.

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Elubas wrote:

You can't really say political correctness doesn't exist. 

The term has no meaning apart from reactionary resistance to treating everyone with dignity.

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You're so selective with your agreement yet the one time you do it's such a bad choice! Of course it has meaning. The alternative would be that the only thing required for goodness is to just only say what "feels good," just pretend everything is the way you want it to be. That's probably not going to make for an easy life in the long run.

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Make white be a "she" and black a "he". That way we get both genders, pronouns that diffrentiate between white and black, and get to have sex-race combos with victim status.

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Shit I forgot about transgenders.

As a token of solidarity promoted pawns will be referred to as "xe"

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Ziryab wrote:
Elubas wrote:

You can't really say political correctness doesn't exist. 

The term has no meaning apart from reactionary resistance to treating everyone with dignity.

That is the most politically correct thing I've ever heard.

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clockblockerz a écrit :

do we have to replace all the she/her with he/him in the kamasutra too?

for those who need it badly to try to get sexual life, sure!

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How-Much-Is-The-Fish wrote:

Nebber, you were looking good until you got up on that milkcrate with that loudspeaker.

That's called "a megaphone", silly. ;)

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Let it all out Neb!

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Nebber_Agin wrote:

It's more about the limitations of persons using the language than those of the language itself. Of course, English is still a crazy language.

        If it's a crazy language, why is it so widely used?

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'cause world is crazy, haven't u noticed yet ?

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Ty Nebber I didn't know the site, I try to speak and write better your language, it is difficult but really funny too.Embarassed 

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I prefer the way you write now, Basher, it's unique.

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ty Shakespeare and King's English will not have fear of a serious competitorEmbarassed

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If you read anything by Shakespeare you might notice that his English was pretty shocking! But it didn't stop people from trying to figure what he was rambling on about, in fact it seemed to peak their curiosity :)

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pique

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thanks!

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mosai wrote:

Make white be a "she" and black a "he". That way we get both genders, pronouns that diffrentiate between white and black, and get to have sex-race combos with victim status.

Crap, my victim way of looking at things makes it impossible for me to know who's good and who's bad! Because everyone is a victim here! And since I have no other tools whatsoever in evaluating a person's morality, I'm screwed!

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English use "SHE" for their personal ship, i remember when i used to sail with some retired spitfire RAF pilote, Perros guirec F 1974. He gave me a paper saying" Marco is a good crew member" to recommend me to friends for another cruise. Coming from  a II war battle of England pilot, and a british sailor, it was for me like having the Victoria Cross. i still have his paper. i was 22, "sob".

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Pike!