# I pit Tollhouse **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [April 22, 2013, 8:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-tollhouse/656431 "2013-04-22T20:19:09Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![GrandWino](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grandwino/32/67_2.png) [@GrandWino](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GrandWino)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2013, 8:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-tollhouse/656431/41 "2013-04-23T20:44:25Z")
Cool story. I liked the part about adding an emoticon. ---
**Author:** ![Lemur866](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lemur866/32/434_2.png) [@Lemur866](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lemur866)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2013, 9:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-tollhouse/656431/42 "2013-04-23T21:16:08Z")
> [@Kimballkid](#): > > No, hir posted some throwaway comment about skulls later on in that thread. Can we please, for the love of fuck, use “they” as the gender-neutral singular pronoun? Seriously, “they” has been proper usage since the time of Shakespeare. Get with the program. There are dozens of these shibboleths intentionally created by English teachers to distinguish between the type of people who follow rules created by English teachers and those who don’t. ---
**Author:** ![R3d\_Anonymous](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/aeb1de/32.png) [@R3d\_Anonymous](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/R3d_Anonymous)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2013, 9:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-tollhouse/656431/43 "2013-04-23T21:21:08Z")
Is the term “hir” accepted as a word now? Google has a definition for it… ---
**Author:** ![Kamino\_Neko](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kamino_neko/32/34_2.png) [@Kamino\_Neko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kamino_Neko)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2013, 9:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-tollhouse/656431/44 "2013-04-23T21:29:02Z")
> [@John\_Mace](#): > > so hir has got that going for hir! [Ze (or zie, or sie) has got that going for hir.](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gender-neutral_pronoun#Summary) Personally, I prefer Spivak’s system of e/ey - em - eir. ---
**Author:** ![Drunky\_Smurf](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drunky_smurf/32/449_2.png) [@Drunky\_Smurf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drunky_Smurf)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2013, 10:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-tollhouse/656431/45 "2013-04-23T22:07:14Z")
> [@Anonymous User](#): > > Is the term “hir” accepted as a word now? > > Google has a definition for it… Google is lying to you. ---
**Author:** ![Ambivalid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a5b964/32.png) [@Ambivalid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ambivalid)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2013, 1:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-tollhouse/656431/46 "2013-04-24T01:01:36Z")
> [@Anonymous User](#): > > What irritates me the most is incorrect punctuation and capitalization. I make spelling errors occasionally (especially if I am posting from a smartphone), and tolerate them to some extent. What really detracts from fluid reading is if you have run-on sentences that contain incorrect capitalization. That’s what irks me the most. > > Oh, by the way, I just wanted to share this from my first thread on the SDMB when I tried using voice recognition to post from a smartphone: > > 😃 Although, I admit it wasn’t purely voice recognition. I did go back and tried to fix some errors that I found. I thought we were pitting **Tollhouse**? 😕 WTF is this shit? ---
**Author:** ![flatlined](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/eb9ed0/32.png) [@flatlined](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/flatlined)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2013, 1:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-tollhouse/656431/47 "2013-04-24T01:10:20Z")
> [@John\_Mace](#): > > OK, now I’ve got an earworm going: > > _Trolling down the house!_ Just so you know. I hates you right now. ---
**Author:** ![flatlined](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/eb9ed0/32.png) [@flatlined](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/flatlined)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2013, 1:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-tollhouse/656431/48 "2013-04-24T01:20:27Z")
One of the reasons that I like you is that you are trying to learn, **AU**. I never thought you were a troll, I thought you were just what you said you were. An arrogant kid who thought he was better than all the rest of us. You are a smart kid, you are learning how to get along. When I joined, I got lots of complaints about me not knowing how to use the shift key. People also complained about me not knowing how to use punctuation. I agreed that I was being sloppy and tried to get better. We joined as newts, but we got better 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![sidhechaos](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e47c2d/32.png) [@sidhechaos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sidhechaos)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2013, 3:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-tollhouse/656431/49 "2013-04-24T03:56:51Z")
> [@John\_Mace](#): > > I just want to know if “hir” is some neologism combining “him” and “her”. > > I’m just asking questions! your correct, some androgynous, trans and hermaphodite people prefer ‘hir’(him/her) and ‘hem’ (she/he)or at least this is how a hermaphodite friend prefers to be referred to, although hem does not get bent out of shape if you don’t, hir says change takes time. I think it the case of a pitting I wouldn’t make the effort for manners and just say troll [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-tollhouse/656431.md?page=2)