#17226: "Use of his/her vs their"
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• Please copy/paste the error message you see on your screen, if applicable.
Repeatedly throughout the site the text uses "his/her" to refer to the player. This is linguistically awkward, when "their" serves the same role in the sentence. His/her also excludes nonbinary players, including friends I use this site with.
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• Please explain what you wanted to do, what you did and what happened
• Which browser are you using?
Google Chrome v81
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• Please copy/paste the text displayed in English instead of your language. If you have a screenshot of this bug (good practice), you can use Imgur.com to upload it and copy/paste the link here.
Repeatedly throughout the site the text uses "his/her" to refer to the player. This is linguistically awkward, when "their" serves the same role in the sentence. His/her also excludes nonbinary players, including friends I use this site with.
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• Is this text available in the translation system? If yes, has it been translated for more than 24 hours?
• Which browser are you using?
Google Chrome v81
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• Please explain your suggestion precisely and concisely so that it's as easy as possible to understand what you mean.
Repeatedly throughout the site the text uses "his/her" to refer to the player. This is linguistically awkward, when "their" serves the same role in the sentence. His/her also excludes nonbinary players, including friends I use this site with.
• Which browser are you using?
Google Chrome v81
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• What was displayed on the screen when you were blocked (Blank screen? Part of the game interface? Error message?)
Repeatedly throughout the site the text uses "his/her" to refer to the player. This is linguistically awkward, when "their" serves the same role in the sentence. His/her also excludes nonbinary players, including friends I use this site with.
• Which browser are you using?
Google Chrome v81
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• Which part of the rules was not followed by the BGA adaptation?
Repeatedly throughout the site the text uses "his/her" to refer to the player. This is linguistically awkward, when "their" serves the same role in the sentence. His/her also excludes nonbinary players, including friends I use this site with.
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• Is the rules violation visible on game replay? If yes, at which move number?
• Which browser are you using?
Google Chrome v81
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• What was the game action you wanted to do?
Repeatedly throughout the site the text uses "his/her" to refer to the player. This is linguistically awkward, when "their" serves the same role in the sentence. His/her also excludes nonbinary players, including friends I use this site with.
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• What did you try to do to trigger this game action?
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• What happened when you tried to do this (error message, game status bar message, ...)?
• Which browser are you using?
Google Chrome v81
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• At which step of the game did the problem occur? What was the current game instruction?
Repeatedly throughout the site the text uses "his/her" to refer to the player. This is linguistically awkward, when "their" serves the same role in the sentence. His/her also excludes nonbinary players, including friends I use this site with.
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• What happened when you tried to do this game action (error message, game status bar message, ...)?
• Which browser are you using?
Google Chrome v81
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• Please describe the display issue. If you have a screenshot of this bug (good practice), you can use Imgur.com to upload it and copy/paste the link here.
Repeatedly throughout the site the text uses "his/her" to refer to the player. This is linguistically awkward, when "their" serves the same role in the sentence. His/her also excludes nonbinary players, including friends I use this site with.
• Which browser are you using?
Google Chrome v81
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• Please copy/paste the text displayed in English instead of your language. If you have a screenshot of this bug (good practice), you can use Imgur.com to upload it and copy/paste the link here.
Repeatedly throughout the site the text uses "his/her" to refer to the player. This is linguistically awkward, when "their" serves the same role in the sentence. His/her also excludes nonbinary players, including friends I use this site with.
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• Is this text available in the translation system? If yes, has it been translated for more than 24 hours?
• Which browser are you using?
Google Chrome v81
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• Please explain your suggestion precisely and concisely so that it's as easy as possible to understand what you mean.
Repeatedly throughout the site the text uses "his/her" to refer to the player. This is linguistically awkward, when "their" serves the same role in the sentence. His/her also excludes nonbinary players, including friends I use this site with.
• Which browser are you using?
Google Chrome v81
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It shouldn't have to be said, but there it is.
Not only are some female, but some are non-binary and some are fluid. And there are a lot more non male Gamers out there than you may realize.
If you don't wish to program in multiple pronoun options, I suggest that all pronouns be simply replaced with the emerging non-object, nonspecific gender pronouns "they, their, them, theirs."
This language is becoming used in official government documents and many other places, all over the English-speaking world.
Seems like that would be the simplest solution.
AND it would make the board more likely to grow, as it would not only please the many, many people already on the board who are hoping for this, but would ALSO prevent the board from discouraging, literally turning away, those who find themselves being(not so) subtly socially erased & excluded .
PLEASE make this simple, but effective change to improve the inclusive and welcoming potential of the onboard gaming culture.
Thanks! :)
forum.boardgamearena.com/viewtopic.php?f=11&t=19432&start=10#p88592
For other contexts than games, where there is no possibility for replacement, you can submit a change request from the translation system for the English source text ("English to English" translation)
Having "man", "woman" and "do not display" is not inclusive to us nonbinary people
Thanks!
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