Christophe Grandsire wrote:
> En réponse à Tristan McLeay :
>
>> Hmm... I think Pidse is a bit more like St. German in this regard.
>
>
> LOL, I read that as "Saint German" as well.
Obviously something to be avoided then...
> The abbreviation rule you're
> referring to in another post is basically what is done in French, but I'm
> pretty sure English uses the dot in all cases of abbreviations except
> acronyms, which is why it looked strange ;))) .
Well, I'm pretty sure it doesn't. Though the older something is, the
more likely it is to put a dot at the end of 'Mr' and suchlike. The
replacement of Mrs and Miss by Ms seems to have killed the dot, though:
Ms doesn't have a dot, so Mr doesn't to look similar from whence its
absence spreads everywhere.
>> It's grammatical gender stems from a feminist movement because the word
>> for 'that' was the same as the word for 'he' (a holdover from Ygyde).
>
> Hehe, Ygyde is not politically correct? ;)))
Doesn't seem that way, does it? <flamebait>This is why Pidse will make a
much better IAL than Ygyde.</flamebait>
[stuff about how Pidse develops gramatical gender but keeps biological
sex the determiner for pronouns]
> Interesting evolution...
Interesting = fun, therefore it's still perfectly good :)
>> (If that made an ounce of sense, it's a coincidence. :) )
>
>
> Rather synchronicity in this case ;)) .
Pardon?
> And it did make sense :)) .
I'm impressed :)
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Tristan <kesuari@...>