On Wed, Aug 23, 2017  Stathis Papaioannou <[email protected]> wrote:


​> ​
> If I say, "when you see the light turn red, stop walking", the "you"
> refers to anyone who hears the sentence.
>

​"You" could be replaced by "
 Stathis
​ or John or Bruno or..." and continue on until every human on the planet
was listed, but that might be a tad cumbersome so personal pronouns were
invented. It was a good invention, they save time and up to now have caused
few problems, but then up to now nobody has invented a
people duplicating machine. ​

John K Clark

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