Thou hast no need at all to be pompous, just a wee bit old-fashioned.
Thou art more than welcome me to the extremely select club of language
nutters (current membership: 1 and a few stray Mennonites)
who want to bring Thou, thee, they and thine back into mainstream
English usages.
Membership is free, and thou art not required to wear a daft uniform,
change thy dietary habits, take any odd vows, or
reassess thy personal hygiene regime . . .
However, if thou usest the middle-finger in any way whatsoever thou wilt
be expelled forthwith, fifthwith and sixthwith!
None of our membership have become obsessive enough to remove their
middle-finger, Yet!
Richmond.
On 7/4/17 10:43 pm, Mark Wieder via use-livecode wrote:
On 07/04/2017 11:34 AM, Mark Waddingham via use-livecode wrote:
It was a generic 'you' and not you 'you' :)
I think part of my brain decided on 'one' there but my fingers
objected ('when' should have been 'one').
Indeed in this instance 'one' in both places probably would have been
better, however I always feel like that sounds slightly pompous...
LOL
Yes, "one" would maybe have been more syntactically correct but made
you feel pompous. "You" in both places emphasizes the lexical
ambiguity. So even though the sentence would be diagrammed the same
way (the bytecode implementation would be identical) they feel
completely different.
So... aren't you glad we have synonyms? <g>
And placing the sentence in passive voice would eliminate the above
problems by allowing a different creative process to take place. Thus
my argument for synonyms: not that it makes much (if any) difference
at the engine level, but it allows for some right-brain interaction in
what would otherwise be a completely left-brain activity.
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