ttun News (2016 version)

[Bill Lucas]

preparethyanus?

 

[Jagdaddy]

Everyone knows that my pronoun is dbb, but shifting the focus back to TSUN...

Clearly one can't assume the proper pronoun for someone based on their sexuality, but when you don't know their preference it can provide, statistically speaking, a good first guess.

Does anyone know what the commonly-preferred-pronoun among plungerphiles might be?

BWI (pronounced Bwee)

 

[Jagdaddy]

Work tends to block tweets so I can't see the original post: Does it at least leave room for this:

 

[maximumblitz]

The thing I find so amazing about this....

The final decision was made by the university’s Pronoun Committee

There's a pronoun committee?

The pronoun committee is a sub-comittee of the nomenclature sub-committee

 

[maximumblitz]

The campus directory is giving students the option to be referred to as “he,” “she” or “ze,” a recently developed pronoun intended to be completely gender neutral.

When I refer to tSUN folks, I will be defaulting to "it" (as in he/she/ze/it).

 

[GoBucks1014]

The pronoun committee is a sub-comittee of the nomenclature sub-committee

Of course, makes so much sense now.

 

[cincibuck]

What happened to the days when you could just shout across the room, "Hey asshole, where's the fuckin' eucher deck?" and get a proper answer?

 

[BayBuck]

The pronoun committee is a sub-comittee of the nomenclature sub-committee

It really sounds like more of a Task Force or Working Group to me: you'd think a group so concerned with designations would be more accurate.

Also, in case anyone wants to put this into more context, here are the committee members, whose names & roles make zem quite ripe for caricature:

This process has been developed over the past year by a Pronoun Committee. Members of that committee include: Carrie Shumaker, ITS Student Administration; Janice Lewis-Boyd, UM-Dearborn registrar; Jacob Lederman, UM-Flint assistant professor of sociology; Lisa Emery, Office of the Registrar; Robin Queen, professor of linguistics; Scott Berkley, chair of the Admissions Systems Production Team; Trey Williams, assistant vice provost; Will Sherry, director of the Spectrum Center; Mariah Zeisberg, professor of political science, Patricia Petrowski, Office of the General Counsel; and Catherine Pinkerton, Office of the General Counsel.

https://record.umich.edu/articles/students-now-may-designate-personal-pronouns-class-rosters

 

[buxfan4life]

BWI (pronounced Bwee)

Really? And here I always thought it was pronounced "cult".

 

[colobuck79]

preparethyanus?

Hugehandsness?

 

[buckeyemania11]

Ignorant cis males! Better read up on your pronouns

http://nonbinary.org/wiki/Pronouns

wouldnt want to upset ve or em

I just realized I assumed your genders in the first line, shit.

 

[sparcboxbuck]

This is easily waaaaaaaaay fucking worse than 1% milk. JFC, that is all.

Fuck.

 

[Jaxbuck]

This process has been developed over the past year by a Pronoun Committee. Members of that committee include: Carrie Shumaker, ITS Student Administration; Janice Lewis-Boyd, UM-Dearborn registrar; Jacob Lederman, UM-Flint assistant professor of sociology; Lisa Emery, Office of the Registrar; Robin Queen, professor of linguistics; Scott Berkley, chair of the Admissions Systems Production Team; Trey Williams, assistant vice provost; Will Sherry, director of the Spectrum Center; Mariah Zeisberg, professor of political science, Patricia Petrowski, Office of the General Counsel; and Catherine Pinkerton, Office of the General Counsel.

No Fawn Leibowitz?

 

[LordJeffBuck]

Michigan has a Pronoun Committee while Penn State is curing cancer. Better step up your game, Wolverines!

 

[maximumblitz]

"Give me ze papers plz"?

Ze JBlow