Marcus Brinkmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I hope you are well aware of the fact that a lot of people will not
understand it, and probably will ask you about it. I can tell you that most
german readers may be confused. I don't know about other countries, but I
assume the situation is not very
I´m did a little research and nobody here at my university I ask (not
too many people, and not represantive, but FWIW) did know this use
of they.
I would really appreciate a list of word explanations, as reading
english legal texts is hard. I´m willing to learn new stuff, but
I hope that Ian can
--On Thu, Apr 30, 1998 1:03 pm +0200 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
I´m did a little research and nobody here at my university I ask (not
too many people, and not represantive, but FWIW) did know this use
of they.
I would really appreciate a list of word explanations, as reading
english legal
On Tue, Apr 28, 1998 at 05:02:57PM +0100, Ian Jackson wrote:
This discussion is ridiculous.
In my view singular `they' is perfectly correct. If I can use it in
my PhD thesis (with a footnote[1] and supporting references, and
without any complaint from the examiners) then we can use it here.
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