Sleeper Service wrote:Estel wrote:I really appreciate your spell-checking efforts Rockman (and I'm glad that Sleepy opted for git, after all!), but as for this specific dillema, I feel replacing her/his by they/them really awkard, in most situations. I know that you're right that it's formally legit language-wise, but things like "Your crewmember is in their personal quarters" instantly rises the "whose quarters?" question in my head. Well, the "wrong gender" thing wasn't ideal either, maybe the new one just need getting used to...
Right, its hard for me to gauge what works best for obvious language reason. Github revision control would allow to reverse those changes made by Rackman. Would you advise to do this? Rockman, are you still around? Your thoughts?
Hey, yeah I come back here and check on how things are doing but I've been too busy to do any modding for a long time. I was planning on doing a lot more spell checking, but stuff came up... Maybe I'll be able to do a bit of modding in the summer, but we'll see.
Anyway, if you want to revert the changes that is ok, but I don't think it is necessary. First of all, just so you know, I didn't make those changes because I care about political correctness, I made them because it breaks immersion and sounds silly when your female crewmember is referred to as a he (And remember Zoltan's don't even have gender ). And since Sleeper added a lot more female names I thought this was relevant. It is still strange to have every person referred to as a he though, it makes it feel like there are no women in the future... (I appreciated the ONE even that refers to a female pirate captain )
Like you said though... "Their" is a %100 perfectly legit, and commonly used, way to refer to someone, IF you aren't referring to them by name. I have spoken English my entire life and, "your crewmember is in their personal quarters" sounds fine to me. If you said "his" quarters or "her" quarters you couldn't tell whose quarters it is either... And the even the game originally would always refer to enemies as "they," (And enemy ships are also usually referred to in the singular sense) but I know you don't want a lecture...
But yeah, I was also careful when changing all those references and double checked every single replacement to make sure it sounded right still. So in short, personally, I don't think reverting those changes is necessary. And it could be argued that it is a matter of personal preference, but in a practical sense, my changes are more correct than before.