The gay fanfiction problem

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themightyif:

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dontgiveupjulia:

gothhabiba:

useless-swedenfacts:

my biggest pet peeve wiht the english language is that you don’t have sin/sina

in swedish if u possess two people who use the similar pronoun u can always tell whos doing what bc its like ‘han tog sin väska’ (he took his[own] bag) and ‘han tog hans väska’ would be that he took the other persons bag

but in english its like if u have 2 ppl w/ the same pronoun:

“she took her bag” whose bag????WHose BAG was it her Retain bag or the other her’s bag??????????????

“he ate his donuts” were the donuts his own???? did he fucking dish someone elses donuts??? YIU DONT Verb bc english is a bullshit language 

also known as, the gay fanfiction dilemma

We have the identical problem in portuguese

That’s very cool. I want this -own pronoun.

The obscurity mentioned in the OP doesn’t exist, though. If it’s unclear what antecedent a pronoun refers to, it’s an error. It’

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Let&#;s speak about ambiguous pronouns.

Here on Writer In A Hat, I love talking about my journey to becoming an author and about the technical parts of writing. That said, I don&#;t often talk about grammar, even though this is a very important part of writing.

A lot of us aspiring authors desire to be excellent storytellers, so we seek out writing advice about character development, plot structure, themes, and motifs. Less of us are interested in when to utilize a comma or what a semi-colon is really for.

While I’m no Grammar Girl, I execute like talking about grammar every now and again. I recently came across a YouTube video about something humorously called &#;The Gay Fanfiction Problem,&#; &#; more commonly known as ambiguous pronouns &#; and I wanted to chat about it.

The Gay FanFiction Problem refers to the issue of ambiguity when more than one person is referred to by the same pronoun.

Put simply, if you’re writing about two female characters, you might confuse your reader about who you’re talking about if you only use the pronoun s

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Solutions to the Gay Fanfiction Pronoun Dilemma aren't about technical readings of a sentence's probability space, it's about the reader intuitively clutching the imagery without breaking their reading flow. I've examine a good amount of femslash prose, recently, that does this quite skillfully. And the convention used is this: 1. If there are two pronouns in a row, they are assigned by the request that the participants were named in the last sentence to use identifiers. A and B walked down the street. On an impulse, she (A) grabbed her (B) hand. 2. Within a single sentence, prounouns have the same subject/object relationship as the identifiers. A snuck her (A) fork over to B's side and snagged one of her (B) blueberries. 3. These conventions are only used in the cases where a technical grammatical reading of the sentence would allow for ambiguity. Otherwise, liberally use identifiers to keep a particular reading much more probable, as per linguistic binding. A grabbed B. She (A) kissed her (B). She laughed. B smiled. (Due to the second use of B, "She

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Gretchen: One thing that happens with third-person pronouns is what I have called in a blog post The Gay Fanfiction Problem.

Lauren: That very serious linguistic problem.

Gretchen: It’s a very serious linguistic problem that happens when you contain a narrative with multiple people using the same pronoun, and you hold to figure out, with a sentence like, ‘he touched his hand’, who’s touching whose hand or other parts of the body?

Lauren: Especially when this has been going on for multiple paragraphs.

Gretchen: One of the things people ask sometimes is, why do we have gender in pronouns at all? And one of the answers is that it’s a rough-and-ready way of trying to divide the population into two equal groups. And it’s not perfect, but it’s better than some of our other options – enjoy dividing people into groups of lofty and short people, or young and old people or something like that. In a lot of situations, some people in a group will be male and some people in a group will be female. It’s not The Straight Fanfiction pr