On Feb 06, James Rubino <james.rub...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Time Out from IMDbPy...
LOL. :-)
> David... are you telling me that Italians have started a style of
> speaking in the grammer of english?
Not exactly, but for some to me unknown reason - in the era of
instantaneous communication - we still follow American fashions
with 10 (or more) years of delay. :-)
I expect the rise of Italian creationism (pardon: intelligent design)
any time soon. ;-)
Anyway, since some years a lot of people uses "lui/lei" ("he/she"),
"suo/sua" ("him/her") despite the fact that - as far as I known -
in Italian the masculine form should (or even must) be the default,
when ambiguous or unspecified.
And I prefer to say nothing about monsters like "tutti/e" ("every" in
masculine and feminine forms) - You can even get a "tutt*", from
tech-savvy people. I find it horrible. [1]
By the way, is it me or "he/she" is less and less used, in English?
/me without any bigger problem. ;-)
+++
[1] and deadly wrong for every kind of regexp/wildcard in this
universe! Use "tutt[ie]", at least! ;-)
C'mon, make it correct in PCRE, if not in Italian. :-P
--
Davide Alberani <davide.alber...@gmail.com> [PGP KeyID: 0x465BFD47]
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