Subject: Genderbending and pronouns...
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Posted on: 2011-08-13 21:43:00 UTC
I loved the mission. Long, but totally worth reading. Your agents' vacation had me laughing out loud. Warning to future readers: Swallow your Mountain Dew before you read. You'll thank me.
So I'm thinking about another grammar issue, specifically Cadmar's gender-bending and how you switched pronouns for him/her afterward. I'm not sure about the proper pronouns for situations like that. Do you go by physical gender, mental gender, or what? Do you just use those awkward third-gender pronouns? You can't use "it"; that just sounds like they're not a person anymore. Sure, gender-bending isn't real-life, but there have to be grammatical conventions for this somewhere.