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Not to be terribly pedantic, but, just fyi, you can't use "they" to refer to "the player" since the former is plural and the latter is singular.  &ndash; [[User:Defiant Elements|<font color="black">Defiant Elements</font>]] 03:29, 13 November 2008 (UTC)
Not to be terribly pedantic, but, just fyi, you can't use "they" to refer to "the player" since the former is plural and the latter is singular.  &ndash; [[User:Defiant Elements|<font color="black">Defiant Elements</font>]] 03:29, 13 November 2008 (UTC)
:Many sources now consider "they" to be a legitimate usage in place of a singular pronoun which would require a specified gender, so instead of saying that the player is a he or a she (or listing both) one is able to refer to them with a normally plural pronoun.  I'll let it slide, but I thought you should know that this usage is pretty commonplace. [[User:Miles.oppenheimer|<span style="font-family:Comic Sans MS;">'''Miles''']] ([[User talk:Miles.oppenheimer|talk]] - [[Special:Contributions/Miles.oppenheimer|contribs]])</span> 03:33, 13 November 2008 (UTC)
:Many sources now consider "they" to be a legitimate usage in place of a singular pronoun which would require a specified gender, so instead of saying that the player is a he or a she (or listing both) one is able to refer to them with a normally plural pronoun.  I'll let it slide, but I thought you should know that this usage is pretty commonplace. [[User:Miles.oppenheimer|<span style="font-family:Comic Sans MS;">'''Miles''']] ([[User talk:Miles.oppenheimer|talk]] - [[Special:Contributions/Miles.oppenheimer|contribs]])</span> 03:33, 13 November 2008 (UTC)
::Just because I claimed that I wasn't terribly pedantic doesn't mean I'm not ;).  And if you don't want to write "he or she," "he" alone can be used as an androgynous singular pronoun.  &ndash; [[User:Defiant Elements|<font color="black">Defiant Elements</font>]] 03:38, 13 November 2008 (UTC) 


Hey Miles!  I dunno if you're the right person to ask, but since you're dedicated to the SSE pages, I'll ask anyway.  I think that the SSE pages about the levels themselves should have some indication of what order it comes in.  Por ejemplo, "Midair Stadium should have a 1 somehwere.  Do  you get what I mean?  '''[[User:Cheezperson|<span style="color:gold">Cheez</span><span style="color:red">person</span>]]''' {[[User talk:Cheezperson|<span style="color:steelblue">talk</span>]]}[[Special:Contributions/Cheezperson|<span style="color:silver">stuff</span>]]''' 03:37, 13 November 2008 (UTC)
Hey Miles!  I dunno if you're the right person to ask, but since you're dedicated to the SSE pages, I'll ask anyway.  I think that the SSE pages about the levels themselves should have some indication of what order it comes in.  Por ejemplo, "Midair Stadium should have a 1 somehwere.  Do  you get what I mean?  '''[[User:Cheezperson|<span style="color:gold">Cheez</span><span style="color:red">person</span>]]''' {[[User talk:Cheezperson|<span style="color:steelblue">talk</span>]]}[[Special:Contributions/Cheezperson|<span style="color:silver">stuff</span>]]''' 03:37, 13 November 2008 (UTC)