A Public Thank you.

This weekend, a person, who shall remain nameless unless he wants the publicity, gave me $1500L out of the blue, no strings attached. All he asked was that I in some way do something nice for someone else. I was skeptical at first, but it was legitimate. To him, or her, I say thank you. It was a nice thing to see, and it was apprecitated, even though I would not be considered needy in SL. Your generosity will reach others through me, rest assured.

Hehehehehe

Might wanna tweak that if you're trying to let him..........or her..............remain gender anonymous.

Hey, Joseph, now you're the one lettin' the cat out of the bag!

In English, it is proper to use the masculine pronoun when the gender is unknown.

I thought the non descriptive "They" was more appropriate. "He" is gender indictive.

As in..."They gave me such and such" and " They asked me to do this and that" and "I'd like to let them know yadda yadda".

Of course...that may very well be improper english. If so...my apologies.

Based upon the name, I'm pretty sure it's a he..but in SL you never know.

Oh! Oh! I know somebody with a male name - I wonder if it's him!!

Random acts of kindness rule. What are you going to do with the loot, Brenda?

Dinner at (someone needs to invent a good SL restaurant/longue) on Brenda!

=)

Actually this is more of a PC Convention (the use of "they", "he" is correct.

On my first day in SL someone gave me L$10,000. I didn't even realise what it was worth.

there are some wonderful people out there.

When I'd just orientated, someone gave me 300L$ to get started.

I'd stretch your point to say there are lots of wonderful people out there

Thank you to the lovely lady who set out to denoobify newbies and started me off with a pile of freebie clothes and the money (and instructions) to buy a pack of hair! That was a kind and thoughtful gesture and really helped me get started.

And a thank you to the person who I met in Starax's shop who, for no reason I can tell beyond kindness and an appreciation of beautiful things, footed me the cash for the angel avatar on the condition that A: I spent it on the avatar! and B) I carried over the kindness to someone else!

I wonder if the second person was the same one you met, Brenda?

Were you in a strip club? He might of just wanted in your pants. kidding...... Yea random acts of kindess really do rule!

It's hard being nice nowadays. Previously the odd random kind act ended with the recipient, a few weeks ago I was chatting to a noob who was very likable, they were skint, not a L$ to their name, so i gave them a free prefab worth a couple of L$K. No biggie, good deed for the day and all that. It would then seem this noob told everyone they met for the next 48 hours as I was inundated with IM's from people wanting free builds, clothes (which i dont even sell) and some just cut to the chase and asked for the L$ directly. At first it was amusing, then I just got annoying and started telling them to "f*** off". So I went from commiting a genourous act to beoming verbally abusive to any noob that IM'd me, all within a 2 day period. Nowadays I am happy to devote time and experience to new players but will no longer offer free products or L$ to the greedy little buggers.

It happened to me too in my noob days (not so long ago)... A friend of mine offered me L$1500 to buy... I don't remember what but it was so nice of him ! But I just couldn't accept, the money is there to be earned not received, so I returned him the whole (even though I had something like L$200 in my account at that time, "earned" through *cough* camping *cough*). We're still friends and now that I have some money I do that quite a lot myself. Thanks M !

Even earlier another friend of mine offered me L$750 to buy an outfit. I had exactly L$0, as it was my first day on SL... we're still friends too thanks J !

Keep up the kindness acts people, that's what makes SL a nice place to live in

When I was a noob, a guy approached me at a high end clothing store and we visited, although I was somewhat guarded. He bought me a LBD [little black dress] and a gorgeous evening gown, both of which are two of my favorite outfits. He didnt want anything in return either. I now actually work as a greeter. sales girl at that store. When I make anew friend who is a noob, I take him or her to that store and buy them an outfit. I think I get as much pleasure from this as they do!

Though it is commonly used in our everyday speech in order to remain gender neutral, "they" shoud technically only be used to refer to more than one person. The singular pronoun would be "he" or "she" (or even the often-awkward "one".

Anyway, I've been meaning to post about the generous people I've met in SL on my blog for some time. It seems that what generally gets talked about when it comes to SL are sex and money. What keeps me in SL are the great people I've met who continually amaze me with their willingness to help one another

Nevermind all that, lets figure out who he is so I can get some money too



Technically in formal English if its either a "he" or "she" but could be either; the correct pronoun is "he".

A legacy to the non so distant extremely male-dominated past.

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PS- Chloe probably knows this, not meaning to imply she doesnt. Its something thats been gradualy changing in recent years. he/she is much more common , as is using he on one page and she on another.

That used to be the case, but you will find that many works written recently (I'm guessing over the last 10-20 years) will use "he" and "she" interchangably. It's an effort to overcome that "male-dominated past." In fact, I've seen articles using only "she" when referring to a hypothetical person.

What I recommend my students do (I teach freshman comp) is switch between the two. For example, in one paragraph, all singular pronouns can be "she" and in the next, "he." That way, the awkwardness of using "he or she" is overcome, and the writer has still managed to remain gender neutral.

OK, enough with the English lessons. Let's hear more about those altruistic avies out there

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Grrr . . . I post my reply, and you've edited your post to address this. Well, I guess that's settled, then

hehe my degree is in history - And is more that a dozen years old, lol.

So of course we were taught the old fashioned way. Mainly read the old fashioned way. History isnt for people who dont like to read. My book list each semester scared my room mate lol.

Kindness rocks.
In Decemeber I had a SL friend me give me Adobe Creative Suite and Photoshop, still learning it though. Another loaned me 44k, still working repaying them.
I was quite flattered by the gifts and there trust to do such a thing.
I didn't expect anything either way from them it just nice to have someone do kind things for you.
Another bought me a 512m2 lot by road and donated it to my private group and doesn't expect any type of repayment.
Thank you friends.

Well...I'm glad my lack of knowledge concerning proper grammar and use of pronouns has managed to derail a good many posts in this topic, thus distracting everyone from the good natured and unselfish act mentioned in the first post.

Excellent......exxxxceeeelllent.

*steeples fingers evilly*

In medieval times, all children, regardless of gender, were referred to as girls.

In ancient times, most deities were female - especially the more powerful ones.

The "male dominated past" is relatively recent, and can be traced almost directly to power sturggles that occurred in ancient Rome shortly after the death of Christ. It is largely the Christian Church which deposed the female deities and installed their own male one.

lol can we have a thread about evil genius type persons next?

Completely disagree with most of this post.

The vast majority of cultures in recorded history have been male dominated including those predating the rise of the Catholic church.

It true that children were universily dressed as girls in much of europe during the middle ages. Im not certain on the being referred to as girls though, It doesnt jar any memory.