Writing Style He vs. She


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hogarth wrote:
James Jacobs wrote:

For our Pathfinder style, the word "orcish" is a grammatical error itself, by the way.

We don't use "-ish" at the end of any of our races to make adjectives. We generally just use the name of the race.

With the exception of "elven" or "dwarven" (not "elf" or "dwarf"), correct?

Yeah. Hence my use of the word "generally."

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James Jacobs wrote:
hogarth wrote:
James Jacobs wrote:

For our Pathfinder style, the word "orcish" is a grammatical error itself, by the way.

We don't use "-ish" at the end of any of our races to make adjectives. We generally just use the name of the race.

With the exception of "elven" or "dwarven" (not "elf" or "dwarf"), correct?
Yeah. Hence my use of the word "generally."

... which is another style thing we inherited from WotC. :)

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In any event... this conversation has outlived its usefulness. Our method of using he/she pronouns isn't going to change, and I'm not interested in seeing this particular argument continue here. If you want to argue about it still, I suppose you can restart the thread down in the off-topic part of the messageboards... but I strongly recommend you don't.

The OP's original question was answered almost immediately--the us of "he" in that part of the book was nothing more than a typo that has been logged for correction in the next printing fo the book.

In any event, thread shut down in three... two... one.

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