Friday, May 17, 2013

What's the proper pronoun when performing an action in IRC?




In IRC chats you can "perform an action" with the /me command. It changes the way the text looks so that it's a little more third person and narrative. Here's an example:



chmullig: I'm really hungry
sam: You should eat some cake
chmullig: You're right, I should!
* chmullig eats some cake


However if we wanted to use a pronoun, what would it be? chmullig eats his cake or chmullig eats my cake?



Answer



Third person pronoun, chmullig eats his cake. You're writing for how it will be viewed, basically.


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