To make clear what I'm talking about, shortdescs are the type of thing you see in actions and room inventories when you don't know the name and sometimes when it shows the name in parenthesis, like when someone walks into a room, and shortdescs seem to come on two forms, the long versions and the single word version that is what is changeable with the @shortdesc command and can be assumed as an appearance with the appear command.
The first of these would be the short one word version, which would be things such as girl, boy, man, mano, chico, dude, tomboy, femboy, etc. I would call this the concise shortdesc and use %c and %C for it since they seem to be available.
The second would be the full length version, which may be something like, 'as short girl with long blond hair wearing booty shorts.' I would call this the verbose shortdesc and since the letter seems to be available, use %v and %V for it.
I have been pondering this idea for a while but finally felt the need to present it today when tweaking my character's nakeds and description and I really wanted the %c version of this proposal for use in those applications.