English Blackball Pool Federation

I should imagine that HQ are in the process of what might be called a fudge.

They get that pronouns are important and that various judges have said knock yourself out. But then certain people complain and say it makes this place difficult for them to post because it feels hostile.

it's probably less about pronouns in and of themselves, and more about how they make a certain people feel.

Well that’s a nonsense because MN have themselves accepted that correct pronouns are OK - their own posts above have confirmed.

Complain!

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anyway more importantly Dave the expert said bosoms were an issue, as were fat bellies. Thing is one cannot as a sex characteristic control ones bosom size.

bellies are not a sex characteristic.

as pointed out by defence there really only needs to be an average of disadvantage or just one.

dave named quite a few….

@SidewaysOtter
There you would be wrong. Was deletion for misgendering - ie using sex-based pronouns as in normal English rather than remembering to take the time and effort to double-think.

Pronouns are indeed rohypnol.

I don’t see why a post would be deleted for using correct pronouns based on biological sex. Posts up thread have set out the whole Forstater/Grainger test/WORIADS/GC views protected under EA2010 thing so posts shouldn’t be deleted on this basis.

It's certainly not a conflation. That is not a thing.

I was just going to ask about 'Blackpool'! It's the sort of mis-spoke mistake I would make.

There's a couple of references to 'Blackpool' by RMW - is this an error by RMW, an error in the transcription, or a correct conflation of 'Blackball Pool'?

Dave said the physicist simulation was ridiculous because the break speed was 80mph, which is humanly impossible. I know as a player at much lesser speeds, where the ram is too hard and the cue is slightly bottom on the white then the ball will fly off the table and cause considerable chaos in a pub.

It will probably be for not lying. Some tinpot despot will be apoplectic about the truth being uttered, I suspect.

I may be wrong. Maybe you called a man a woman. And the man is so upright and truthful that he cannot let a lie stand.

Not just non-scientists. It can encompass other subject-matter experts in a different discipline and with whom you need to collaborate. Anyone outside your specific idiolect.

Specialized terminology reduces the number of citations of scientific papers

Words are the building blocks of communicating science. As our understanding of the world progresses, scientific disciplines naturally enrich their specialized vocabulary (jargon). However, in the era of interdisciplinarity, the use of jargon may hinder effective communication among scientists that do not share a common scientific background. The question of how jargon limits the transmission of scientific knowledge has long been debated but rarely addressed quantitatively. We explored the relationship between the use of jargon and citations, using 21 486 articles focusing on cave research, a multidisciplinary field particularly prone to terminological specialization, and where linguistic disagreement among peers is frequent. We demonstrate a significant negative relationship between the proportion of jargon words in the title and abstract and the number of citations a paper receives. Given that these elements are the hook to readers, we urge scientists to restrict jargon to sections of the paper where its use is unavoidable.

https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rspb.2020.2581

@SinnerBoy
There were two sessions this pm. The first two links go to that. Don't know what that weird third link is doing.

@SinnerBoy

https://archive.ph/6xLBW

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Bannedontherun · Today 19:37

Well just caught up and read sub stack. Dave nailed it really IMO

Could you link to it, please? I've trawled back through quite a few pages, but can't find it.

Thanks.

Thanks. Have tried that.

It will be, I was locked out of my account this evening for it. I've re read the policy and will be more circumspect in future.

This is a post hopefully for MNHQ

@Chrysanthemum5
It just says Message deleted by MNHQ and here's a link to Talk Guidelines
@CriticalCondition
I don't think it would be pronouns, but would like to know what it is.

I don't usually have problems on Mnet and am surprised at this.

Well just caught up and read sub stack. Dave nailed it really IMO

And @CriticalCondition is correct, it will be pronouns and they probably won't reinstate your post in that case. For some reason the pronouns of certain individuals are more important than other considerations

Well that didn't take long.

I'm not sure about the best way but others will know. I think there was some discussion at the beginning of the thread.

I am betting myself a large G&T it will be the pronouns you used. It's always the pronouns.

@Mmmnotsure did you get a deletion message? It usually says what the deletion was for

At the beginning of cross-examination RMW asked Dr Alciatore how to pronounce his name. Dr A explained very clearly and politely and with good humour. Over the next couple of hours RMW then proceeded to mispronounce it using pretty much every possible variation except the right one.
Dr A was far too lovely to say anything.