2011/6/11 Lisi <[email protected]>: > On Saturday 11 June 2011 11:07:36 Ralf Mardorf wrote: > [snip] >> > That is not sarcasm incidentally. I would genuinely like to know how you >> > can use braille to read things on the Internet. >> >> A misunderstanding, perhaps regarding to my broken English. > > No, I fully understood you (second person singular). You (second person > singular) said that you (second person singular) are dyslexic. But _you_ > (second person singular) misunderstood _me_. It is difficult for me to know > what I should avoid on an international list, and "one" as a pronoun > effectively died in the mid twentieth century, so complicated periphrasis can > be avoided only by using the pronoun "you" in the third person instead of > using "one", which it has replaced in the language. > > And as you (second person singular) see here, attempts to clarify or rephrase > are necessarily very clumsy. > > Lisi >
Maybe it is time for big revolution in English language of XXI century - the revival of pronoun "one". For one thing, I'm still encountering pronoun "one", and it is quite often, so I wouldn't be so hasty to this judgment of effective death (though it may be caused by wandering in strange dark corners of Internet). darkestkhan ------------------------------------------ Feel free to CC me. jid: [email protected] May The Source be with You. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
