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Bane~Child:
Quote from: SimsHost on 2005 August 19, 22:13:25
Quote from: J. M. Pescado on 2005 August 19, 03:58:40
Heh, well, in my line of work, things get even shorter. To express a need, one simply indicates the lack of the needed object: For example, "NO BULLETS!". This can be further abbreviated to simply "BULLETS!" if it is apparent that you don't have any.
Hmmm... simply "BULLETS" might be miscontrued as "INCOMING!" Try "NEED AMMO!" instead.
I don't think someone yelling "Bullets" would be misconstrued like this unless they were non-military personnel. Ninnies would likely yell this during an attack because of their relative inexperience with being under fire and not knowing from which side the 'hurty' things were coming. Yelling "Bullets" to another soldier in the field would be entirely appropriate as meaning, "Someone pass me some, like right now!". Yelling "Ammo" would be interpreted as meaning "Now is everyone well-equipped with Ammo?...If not you will Need Ammo out there."
laeshanin:
Quote from: SimsHost on 2005 August 19, 22:28:58
Ouch! Ouch! Ouch! You just hit my biggest peeve with illiteracy in The Sims 2. I can almost forgive Maxis for abuse of words like "mooch" and "parquet" and even "lobster thermidor," chalking it up to leading sheltered lives surrounded by bits and bytes; but their abuse of the word "gender" is beyond the pale.
People have sex; words have gender.
Your "gender preference" would refer to whether you like to use, or be addressed by, the masculine or feminine forms of pronouns.
You "sexual preference" would indicate whether you like romantic interactions with males or females.
So you would say "...also my way of saying ta to either sex." That is, of course, unless you talk to words; in which case we have more serious problems to deal with than Maxian illiteracy.
Hmmm, interesting, but I was taught that "gender" is preferred when speaking to people as their sex is merely a biological issue. Perhaps my head is too full of political correctness and I need a slap to get rid of the shite?
Anyway, a friend has just had her book rejected by an American publisher, and one of the reasons they gave (feedback very unusual has to be said) was that she needs to use American punctuation. What? Could someone enlighten me as to what the difference is between American and British punctuation as obviously we are divided by more than a stretch of water. ???
RainbowTigress:
I read on a British-American dictionary website that the British do not put a period after titles such as Mr. and Mrs. as Americans do. I was reading a book that was British once, and I thought it was a misprint because there were no periods after those titles. Perhaps there are other things as well.
Renatus:
Quote from: laeshanin on 2005 August 21, 09:29:06
Hmmm, interesting, but I was taught that "gender" is preferred when speaking to people as their sex is merely a biological issue. Perhaps my head is too full of political correctness and I need a slap to get rid of the shite?
Sortakinda. Gender is a cultural construction of social rules of how one should act based on one's sex; it definitely does apply to people, even though it is not fixed and the expectations change from culture to culture. There are many people now who have chosen a gender that does not match the biological sex, and those who have rejected it outright. </anthropology lesson> :)
laeshanin:
Quote from: rainbow on 2005 August 21, 09:38:32
I read on a British-American dictionary website that the British do not put a period after titles such as Mr. and Mrs. as Americans do. I was reading a book that was British once, and I thought it was a misprint because there were no periods after those titles. Perhaps there are other things as well.
We do place a full stop after titles as they are a contraction, so still not clear what's going on there. Enlightenment is really needed, please.
Thanks, Renatus, for lesson in Anthropology (which I will be pleased to listen to at any time, by the by), as it does kinda make why I was taught "gender" as opposed to "sex" clear/er... Thank all that's good I don't need to write an essay on it again. ::)
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