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A problem with description

I have this outfit-system and the plan was to check the worn equipment and display a textual description of the character.
"You wear an ugly hat and dense fur overs your body." The hat-outfit and also the fur-outfit will produce the substrings that then need to be glued together.

• you wear an ugly hat
• dense fur covers your body
  But those outfits can also be used by NPC and I want to be able to create the description with the same operations.
  But they need to be modified:
• he wears a ugly hat
• dense fur covers his body
  Note that we also have to be gender specific.

My current solution:

• the desription in the outfits is always written in singular pronoun; I wear...
• a function detects the gender of the character and resolves it to I,he,she,it
• a function parses the outfits description; this requires the sensitive parts to be encased in brackets: $[I]$ $[wear]$ an ugly...
• the sensitive parts together with the pronoun are fed into a lookup function that returns the matching phrase
• the original text is reassembled with the matched phrases

This requires a lookup-table with objects defining phrases replacements.
f.e. list['my'] = {def:'my',i:'my',you:'your',he:'his',she:'her', it:'its'};

See window.gm.util.descFixer and window.gm.util.wordlist.