jimrandomh comments on Outside Analysis and Blind Spots - Less Wrong

68 Post author: orthonormal 21 July 2009 01:00AM

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Comment author: jimrandomh 21 July 2009 02:12:22AM *  3 points [-]

IAWYC. That said, I don't like conversations changing topic to grammar because someone misused a word, and I feel that conversations switching to gender issues because someone misused a pronoun are the same thing. The topic is fine when raised directly, as in this post, but obnoxious when it hijacks a conversation about something else, as it often does.

Comment author: orthonormal 21 July 2009 04:13:55AM 4 points [-]

I don't think that these conflicts boil down to just grammar and pronoun usage; the problem of keeping your readers identified with you is IMO more subtle, general and significant than those sub-topics.