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  • matthew greenmrgtwentythree@mastodon.sdf.org
    Mar 14, 2025, 2:23 AM

    i am reading the player of games (1987) by iain m. banks and while it's absolutely amazing scifi this part hit me big time. i miss iain banks.

    Marain, the Culture's quintessentially wonderful language (so the Culture will tell you), has, as any schoolkid knows, one personal pronoun to cover females, males, in-betweens, neuters, children, drones, Minds, other senient machines, and every life-form capable of scraping together anything remotely resembling a nervous system and the rudiments of language (or a good excuse for not having either). Naturally, there _are_ ways of specifying a person's se in Marain, but they're not used in everyday conversation.
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