Pronouns Referring To The Bvm

[Resurrexi]

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[cmotherofpirl]

No.
Why not just spell it out?

[homeschoolmom]

Nopity nope-nope

[Resurrexi]

[quote name='cmotherofpirl' post='1204604' date='Feb 25 2007, 06:42 PM']No.
Why not just spell it out?[/quote]

Becuase it takes more to time to write "The Blessed Virgin Mary is Mother of God and we worship the Blessed Virgin Mary with hyperdulia" than "The Blessed Virgin Mary is Mother of God and we worship Her/her with hyperdulia".

BTW, if someone doesn't know what pronouns, some examples are: I, my, me, myself, thou, thy, thee, thyself, he, she, it, his, her, its, him, her, it, himself, herself, itself, we, our, us, ourself/ves, ye, your, you, yourselves, they, their, them, themselves, this and that.

Edited February 26, 2007 by StThomasMore

[homeschoolmom]

I'm pretty sure most of us know what pronouns are.

[Mateo el Feo]

[quote name='homeschoolmom' post='1204644' date='Feb 25 2007, 10:29 PM']I'm pretty sure most of us know what pronouns are. [/quote]They're the opposite of connouns, right?

[homeschoolmom]

[Moneybags]

I'm interested to see what the Church says on this.

[Resurrexi]

[quote name='St. Benedict' post='1204656' date='Feb 25 2007, 08:48 PM']I'm interested to see what the Church says on this.[/quote]

I've seen a few Catholic books that have the pronouns for the BVM capitalized, but most don't.

[EcceNovaFacioOmni]

We should only capitalize pronouns for God if you ask me. I would imagine this is the Church's practice in her official documents. I often see things where pronouns for God are not capitalized.

Edited February 26, 2007 by thedude

[Extra ecclesiam nulla salus]

i just checked True Devotion to Mary

none of her pronouns are capitalized

[Didymus]

[quote name='Extra ecclesiam nulla salus' post='1204747' date='Feb 26 2007, 08:26 AM']i just checked True Devotion to Mary

none of her pronouns are capitalized[/quote]


that could also be a translation thing too, no? I agree that they're not to be capitalized, but the True Devotion that we read today is (I thought) translated to english.

sweet avatar by the way

[Colleen]

I think I've only seen "She" when one is writing about the Church.

[prose]

If I saw "She" I would think it was referring to the Church.

Now...

as for the language.

Do you talk like that in real life?? I mean the "I know not" thing...

[MissScripture]

[quote name='StThomasMore' post='1204634' date='Feb 25 2007, 09:08 PM']Becuase it takes more to time to write "The Blessed Virgin Mary is Mother of God and we worship the Blessed Virgin Mary with hyperdulia" than "The Blessed Virgin Mary is Mother of God and we worship Her/her with hyperdulia".

BTW, if someone doesn't know what pronouns, some examples are: I, my, me, myself, thou, thy, thee, thyself, he, she, it, his, her, its, him, her, it, himself, herself, itself, we, our, us, ourself/ves, ye, your, you, yourselves, they, their, them, themselves, this and that.[/quote]
A) I'm not sure that's what she meant you should spell out, but I could be mistaken.
B) Once you have established that it is, in fact, "The Blessed Virgin Mary" that you are talking about, you can just refer to her as Mary, totally eliminating the need for the pronoun, if it's that much of a problem.