On Thu, 24 Aug 2017 at 8:07 am, John Clark <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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. > So no grammatical problem when the referent if the pronoun changes - that's what pronouns are for. > -- Stathis Papaioannou -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
