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Section B - Pronoun Messages

[Alas! I wrote a whole complicated system for gender-specific pronouns before discovering that Emily Short's Plurality already did that!]

[And now the last traces are obsolete in 6L02. Oh well.]

Understand "your" or "yours" as a thing when the item described is enclosed by the person asked.

[Understand "my" or "mine" as a thing when the item described is enclosed by the player.]

The player standin is a person. [1]

When play begins: set the gender of the player standin to the gender of the player.

To say you or the (item - an object): [Avoids using a reflexive for the player.]

if the item is the player, say we;

otherwise say the item.

[Aha! Something to use this section for!]

To say he: say "[they]".

To say she: say "[they]".

To say He: say "[They]".

To say She: say "[They]".

To say his: say "[their]".

To say her: say "[their]".

To say His: say "[Their]".

To say Her: say "[Their]".

To say him: say "[them]". [These four are gender-specific because of ambiguity (his(her)/his(hers) and her(his)/her(him)).]

To say Him: say "[Them]".

To say hers: say "[theirs]".

To say Hers: say "[Theirs]".

To say himself: say "[themselves]".

To say herself: say "[themselves]".

To say Himself: say "[Themselves]".

To say Herself: say "[Themselves]".

To say he's: say "[they're]".

To say she's: say "[they're]".

To say He's: say "[They're]".

To say She's: say "[They're]".

To say honorific:

say the honorific for the prior named object.

To say the/-- honorific for (subject - a thing):

if the subject is a person:

say "M[if the subject is masculine]r[else if the subject is feminine]s[else]x[end if]. ";