True. But that’s more meant as a commentary to the player who tries to pick her up (and keeps going at it). I wouldn’t consider that as “canon”. It is as rare as people missing the Voodoo lady in the first game. Rarer even- I never picked up Kate as a kid. 
Oh yes, and he also helped him land a new career as fierce pirate! Without Guybrush, Wally would still be buying love bombs for (who actually?) on Scabb.
As an an American, ie someone who controls the English language (we won the war, cmon), I’ll let you know that dogs are differentiated by breed. ‘Race’ is something only used to denigrate and delineate humans, in order to solidify power structures and notions thereof. I wish Europeans would get with the program and also buy as many guns as you can, because I have heard terrible things about your socialist lands, overrun by indigent foreign marauders.
For Hernando herself? 
Uh, you’re right. In Italian, though, the word is the same - razza, which has the same etymology as race.
I was just turning my American bloviate dial to max to see if it worked, and it friggin does.
Hmm… I don’t know, it seems to me that focusing only on context and intention leads us to dismiss the fact that words can have an intrinsic value for some group of people.
If that group finds a word inadmissible regardless of the situation, no lengthy logical explanation by people belonging to another group would make sense to them.
Ema pointed out the same scenario, but I don’t understand why you both are concerned by it happening. It’s a completely natural thing and I don’t see why we should try to prevent the natural obsolescence of personal vocabularies from happening.
Considering that sooner or later we’ll all belong to that group of senile citizens who will lament how things were good when there were walkman players all around us, it would be better to accept the inevitable course of our obsolescence. 
Cause we’re two old farts, and we have spent many mornings together at our circolino, sipping bianchino, and ranting against modern times.
As Ema said, because we’re old and we’ll be older.
I mean, that’s like saying “not being able to walk properly is part of a later stage in life, so why advocate for lifts, just accept you won’t take stairs anymore”.
Even if it’s normal, I advocate for a more welcoming world instead of one where a simple word said with an innocent intent ends up making someone else attack you.
This is fresh. We’re looking for a native english speaker to teach english to our daughter. Our ad was rejected because the word “native” is discriminating.
This is incredibly stupid. We don’t care if the teacher is black, white, or purple with yellow dots. We don’t care if they’re male, female or whatever in between or beyond. We don’t care if they’re cristian, muslim or pastafarian. We just care they’re native speaker.
I have to remember, next time I’ll have to hire a surgeon for my equipe, that asking for a medical degree is discriminating.
Oh God.
My guess is that the word “native” is used to identify native Americans and it has some sort of automatic filter in it?
I also tend to use “native speaker” instead of “mother tongue” because it just sounds better.
Also “mother tongue” isn’t gender neutral why mother?
No, my wife received an answer from a human, but maybe I should put that word in quotes.
Anyway, my new avatar was stimulated by this thread.
I assume that you meant that “race” isn’t used in anthropology or biology as a form of correct categorization of humans. But “race” does definitely exists as a concept in social sciences.
Where can I find that map?
It is actually. By asking for native speakers you’re excluding near-native speakers like myself, not unlike how a Serbian professor of Dutch was required to take a language competency test in the Netherlands. There’s a very good chance a near-native speaker is a better teacher to boot, because the grammar in your own native language is something that came completely naturally and you never thought about it. (No, throwing some terms around in school hardly counts, unless you did it at uni or otherwise at a sufficiently high level.)
What you want is a term like C2 level English or possibly just C1. In less jargon terms, near-native or possibly just excellent. Asking for a native speaker is counterproductive at best, severely thinning the pool of candidates.
The one I included right underneath is modern.
No, I mean: where can I find it online? Is there a source that explains what the colors mean, for example?
Pardon, see File:The history and geography of human genes Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza map genetic.png - Wikipedia
PS Forgot to say, but I have a degree in English. It goes without saying that most native speakers do not. I wouldn’t necessarily advise making a big point about that because many excellent people don’t have degrees, but that would be a significantly better metric.
You are surely right in your points about the fact that asking for a “native” might be counterproductive in some ways.
Anyway, the fact is that I’m not good at english enough to estimate the english level of someone who’s better than me.
I might ask for a certified level, but, as you mentioned, it isn’t easy to find certified people. Probably it is easier to find natives.
Anyway, we simply took off the word “native” from our ad. That would simply mean we’ll be forced to evaluate more unqualified candidates, such wasting our and their time.
It’s the old discussion about intention… Our intent was to optimize our search, not certainly to discriminate people based on their place of birth 
Anyway, albeit not proficient in english enough to evaluate YOUR english level, I’d hire you at once, since I know you from this forum and I trust your word enough 
The only problem, distance aside, is that you’re probably OVERqualified for this job 
Ok, but a native speaker will most probably be way better in terms of pronunciation and accent.
I have a C2 level in English* yet while my knowledge of English grammar is probably even better than the average native’s, I’m pretty sure I’m not what Ema is looking for
*never went through official certifications, but various assessment tests I had at the University confirmed that
That’s not correct. We wouldn’t be near-native if that were the case. But it’s true that near-native is a level beyond C2.
Also keep in mind that most native speakers aren’t necessarily all that good at the standard language. They’re just native.
