Sadly, although it was a noble attempt at gender neutrality, it is cumbersome and hard to read aloud. 

Spivak is fun.

In general, banning things in the ruleset without actually removing them from the ruleset is usually a bad idea.

Right, I didn’t realize that.  Point noted.  I meant to say remove it from the ruleset.  I would modify it, but it appears to be meeting with stiff opposition.

per Rodney

Shockingly, you get used to it.  And it’s one of the things that gets us set apart: I actually came to the game because at one point we were an example link from wikipedia for Spivak usage.  At one point it wasn’t mandatory, but everyone did it anyway.

The thing is… I don’t FEEL gender neutral… heh.

Now adays, I often used spivak instead of normal prepositions.

While I was pretty dead set against Spivak when we introduced it, I’ve become used to it.

I hate spivak but this proposal doesn’t actually include changes of all the Spivak-related rules in the ‘set, so we’d have an antinomy.

Technically this wont add anything to the ruleset so it wont ban it.  But the ruleset dosn’t require its use either… :p

I’m against Spivak as well, but proposals need to be clearer about what rules they’re changing.

Not my Spivak, sir or madam!

Hey, does anyone know a Spivak honorific?

No, ser.

Mamser?

(pron. “mahmzer”, from ma’am + sir)

As in, How ya doin, Mamser Grasshopper?

I would propose this as part of the dynastic ruleset but I already have 2 pending.