Venia Silente
Inspectious. Good for napping.
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- on the second floor's nest
- Seen Sep 18, 2024
Thanks everyone for their comments on the gendered nouns issue, I learnt plenty of interesting things today. It's a good thing that when people criticize me for spending too much time in the [tubes, I can just point them to forums like this one *.
This is a subject I'll research more deeply with my teacher during summer (winter for most of you people), when we'll be doing some practice to smuggle me into a postgraduate-level English training program for teachers *snickers* . (Also, my teacher was very happy that I ranked 3rd in a writing contest; I didn't let him know that it was about Pokémon, however)
As for Giratina's idea, sorry that I haven't commented but I just remembered I had to read about it. The idea itself sounds interesting, and it's not something I've seen excessively fleshed out so far.
So you're basically saying that this guy is a jerkass and that for some reason the "truth" is explained to him in a dream (how convenient) because one Legendary messed up the realiy for the others... and then Arceus gets down to Earth (so to speak) and misinterprets all the stuff. As a plot, it is nicely planted out. Beyond that little detail of the dream which would set up the story too nicely for the guy, it's all fine. Mostly, it sounds like it could be heck of fun, which is what matters to me.
Also, Nurse Joy sneaks in and takes his Pokémon. Ha! I knew there was a conspiracy going on! :D It's a nice point because it plays with a number of things. Not only the fact that one of the Pokémon to be healed is an effing Shiny Zapdos but also the sneak-in itself. I always think of conspiracy theories when some NPC says they want to heal my Pokémon and then the screen would fade to black while I was left hearing a jingle.
Hey, three posts here in one day. Things seem to be improving... :D
This. Thanks for the info, it served me to ponder this issue a bit. I have never seen a car called a her, but other large land vehicles such as freight trucks. Now that I check what you say about "large vehicles" and "terms of endearment" and took a little Wiki Walk (at Wikipedia, not at TVTropes...) this reminded to me that people assigns a "natural" female gender to things that they belong to (like countries), or that carry them (vehicles) or protect them (like guns),; probably an example of the anthromorphization context that you talk about when applied to the mother-son relationship.Negrek said:... It's actually convention to refer to most large vehicles as feminine--ships, spaceships, cars and similar, etc. tend to be referred to as female. As far as the language itself is concerned, though, they are inanimate objects without gender; the words that refer to them also lack gender. I can't tell you how it came about that people prefer the female pronoun for them, but their actual identifiers are gender-neutral. It's just a quirk of common usage (or a term of endearment, really, usually most often used by the ship's owner/inhabitants), ...
This is a subject I'll research more deeply with my teacher during summer (winter for most of you people), when we'll be doing some practice to smuggle me into a postgraduate-level English training program for teachers *snickers* . (Also, my teacher was very happy that I ranked 3rd in a writing contest; I didn't let him know that it was about Pokémon, however)
As for Giratina's idea, sorry that I haven't commented but I just remembered I had to read about it. The idea itself sounds interesting, and it's not something I've seen excessively fleshed out so far.
Canonicals, now that we have HG&SS... :DLance (no, not the canonical Lance, a different one).
So you're basically saying that this guy is a jerkass and that for some reason the "truth" is explained to him in a dream (how convenient) because one Legendary messed up the realiy for the others... and then Arceus gets down to Earth (so to speak) and misinterprets all the stuff. As a plot, it is nicely planted out. Beyond that little detail of the dream which would set up the story too nicely for the guy, it's all fine. Mostly, it sounds like it could be heck of fun, which is what matters to me.
Also, Nurse Joy sneaks in and takes his Pokémon. Ha! I knew there was a conspiracy going on! :D It's a nice point because it plays with a number of things. Not only the fact that one of the Pokémon to be healed is an effing Shiny Zapdos but also the sneak-in itself. I always think of conspiracy theories when some NPC says they want to heal my Pokémon and then the screen would fade to black while I was left hearing a jingle.
Hey, three posts here in one day. Things seem to be improving... :D