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"Choose Your Own Adventure" On Your iPhone
If you spent a good portion of your childhood reading the classic "Choose Your Own Adventure" books, you'll be glad to know that you can soon waste countless hours at work turning to random pages on your iPhone. Edward Packard, one of the original authors of the series, has helped create an app called U-Ventures which uses special effects to create a story in the traditional Choose Your Own Adventure format. From the article: "The first U-Venture is a sort of a sequel to a classic title, The Cave of Time. In 'Return to the Cave of Time,' the U-Venture, 'you go back in the cave — you don't have a choice on that,' Packard tells NPR's Neal Conan. But from that point on, the reader chooses her own course."
But from that point on, the reader chooses their own course.
What if it's a line? Or a plane? Or, is this absurd example of political correctness meant to suggest that only points can be the start of stories. What is wrong with "geometric concept"? Using "geometric concept" actually lets the sentence make sense rather than sound idiotic.
Change the phrase in the summary to: But from that geometric concept on, the reader chooses their own course. It's common sense, not fucking rocket science. It also keeps everyone happy because it's dimensionless.