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No, that's an example of someone not knowing the language very well. You should have written something like, "which is the company that...". I can't think off
by magduf 8y ago
No, that's an example of someone not knowing the language very well. You should have written something like, "which is the company that...".
I can't think offhand of any language that's really better here in a sense of being more efficient, except probably Classical Latin which is horribly complicated and of course a dead language.
- TomMarius 8y agoCzech allows you to specify that with a change of one letter depending on who you mean (the CTO - který, the company - která) - this depends on different genders of the two words, but is commonly used.
- mitchtbaum 8y agoYea, but the desirable language feature is a differentiation of Joyent and its CTO, based on Joyent being an adjective and CTO a noun, not on noun gender. (Did I set up the problem correctly?)
- TomMarius 8y agoYeah I understand, just wanted to point out that some languages have a hack for that. I can't really imagine how would your ideal solution work/look like.
- setr 8y agoI think using `which` instead of `who` would have been sufficient in this case; but this is a non-general fix for similar reasons
- magduf 8y agoAre they officially calling themselves "Czechia" these days? I saw that on Google Maps recently, I think. It certainly is shorter and simpler than "Czech Republic".
- TomMarius 8y agoIt's the oficial short name (the full name is still Czech Republic), local people don't like it much but they're coming around. However I wasn't referring to the country (Czechia/Czech Republic) but to the language (Czech).
- eatbitseveryday 8y ago>> Presentation by the Joyent CTO btw, who hired a lot of the old Sun Solaris team. > No, that's an example of someone not knowing the language very well. I disagree. The sentence is clear and unambiguous as written. The subject of the first part of the sentence is the CTO himself. If the continuation of the sentence is intended to switch subjects, then it must be written so. For example, '... by the Joyent CTO, whose company ...', or '... by Joyent, who/which ...' thus 'who' refers to 'CTO'.
- magduf 8y agoYou don't understand. The writer of that responded in another post, saying explicitly that he did intend to switch subjects, and then complained about the English language. You're absolutely right: the sentence is clear and unambiguous as written, but it is not what the writer intended. And you're absolutely right later about how it would be changed to switch subjects.