Timeline for answer to Is it appropriate to address characters by their race in D&D? by anon
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| Jun 16, 2025 at 19:05 | comment | added | Kirt | @anon It is used as a referent, not a greeting. See here for example. "O senhor poderia assinar aqui, por favor?” = 'Would the gentleman sign here, please?' That is more formal than 'Would you please sign here?', although both are used. | |
| Jan 11, 2022 at 20:03 | comment | added | Loren Pechtel | @JackAidley True, but in an RPG environment why use the extra words? | |
| Jan 11, 2022 at 8:40 | comment | added | anon | @LorenPechtel Not so, you just need to say who you talking to, e.g. I say to the elf "Good sir, coul you..." | |
| Jan 10, 2022 at 21:41 | comment | added | Loren Pechtel | In the real world you generally wouldn't need to refer to someone as "elf" because it would be apparent who you were talking to. Since we aren't in a VR world we have no way to non-verbally indicate who we are talking to, labels are required that wouldn't be needed in most situations. | |
| Jan 10, 2022 at 19:52 | comment | added | illustro | It might be worth noting, to highlight further your first paragraph, that in some very familiar circumstances and cultures even things that might be highly offensive to a non-familiar person can be terms of endearment (thinking specifically the celtic and cockney tendencies of using swear words between good friends as terms of familiarity or greeting without causing any offence to the recipient). Context is key! | |
| Jan 10, 2022 at 13:27 | comment | added | anon | "The gentleman" is a formal greeting, not a referent. | |
| Jan 10, 2022 at 13:22 | comment | added | Kirt | I'm not sure how general your general truth is. When I was learning Portuguese, I found that many social situations called for exactly this, in the same way that a waiter in English might say, "Would the gentleman care for a desert?" rather than use the informal "you". | |
| Jan 10, 2022 at 10:52 | history | edited | anon | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Jan 10, 2022 at 10:21 | history | answered | anon | CC BY-SA 4.0 |