why do people keep saying "person" to mean "human" in the context of stories that explicitly contain nonhuman persons?
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@packbat I haven't read enough to see that, but the idea really doesn't sit well with me. In my own stories, I won't ever be using person as a synonym for human.
Especially since the stories I plan on writing probably might not even have humans
@Zauberin Most recently we've come across it in the context of tabletop RPG actual-plays
and yeah, it doesn't make sense
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@packbat Some other terms that have been irking me as of late have been humanity, humane, inhuman, etc. All of which basically imply "not human is bad"
@Zauberin *nods*
colonial and neocolonial-era English vocabulary is very humanocentric and it's not nice
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