Open Thread April 11 - April 17, 2016

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Do you mean the pronouns used to address your character are automatically edited to be what you want?

It would be interesting if people could put up lists of the pronouns they prefer, and that would give them a tool for roughly judging how much trouble people are willing to go to to appear to be on their side.

Are there any games which encourage a you/thou distinction?

No, but there's American English. I've been trying to introduce you and y'all in Cambridge, it's pretty cool.

1Sabiola10y

I hope there are not, people would use the wrong cases and verb forms all the time.

5Lumifer10y

Games typically will avoid pronouns and just use the character's name. It's not hard because most of the dialogue in games is addressed to the player and is not two NPCs talking about the player. [...] In English the only reason to use thou would be some fake medievalism along the lines of Ye Olde Electronics Shoppe. But I wonder how things work in e.g. French where tu/vous distinction is alive and well.