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Ze

23:50 / 14.12.01

Ze, come talk to me mate

Mordant Carnival

12:18 / 15.12.01

You're either being incredibly cool, witty and post-postmodern (in which case ignore the rest of this message while I crawl under the bed and snivel, overawed) or you're unaware that "ze" is a unisex pronoun used to indicate a) an individual of no discernable sex, or b) you don't know the sex of the person you're referring to. The posessive equivalent is "hir", as in:

"Ze rode into town on hir bicycle".

Popular on the board as it looks dead antisexist and right-on (and also saves much "Oops! Thought you were a fella!" -type embarassment).

[ 15-12-2001: Message edited by: Mordant C@rnival ]

Mordant Carnival

12:25 / 15.12.01

You zhould ze what that ztuff doez to your zinuzezzz.

*zniff*.

02:53 / 22.12.01

Acually I was just getting Ze's attention.

Anyone out there who is actually curious as what I am doing then contact me, and I may tell you.

18:21 / 22.12.01

heh, if you're gonna hold private conversations with servitors, do it on email

Mordant Carnival

21:50 / 22.12.01

quote:Originally posted by Gho5tD4nc3r:
Acually I was just getting Ze's attention.

Anyone out there who is actually curious as what I am doing then contact me, and I may tell you.

Er. Listen, sweetie, I hate to sound all patronizing and whatnot, but I think you may be labouring under the teensiest missaprehension.

You're trying to contact the wish-granting servitor, right? Right. Well, the wish-granting servitor is called Gek, not Ze. Ze is just a pronoun. We refer to Gek in the neutral because hir creator, impulsivelad, didn't assign a gender and Gek hirself hasn't chosen one, so it's probably best to assume that ze is happy to be a funky pansexual lovemuffin.

Hence the confusion. You want Gek (a wish-granting servitor of recent vintage), not Ze (a gender-neutral pronoun of recent vintage). Do have another go- my curiosity's positively burbling as to what you might intend.