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dragonwriter had some interesting things to say. However, they used a lot of hand-wavy claims. That sounds normal to you?
by sliverstorm 12y ago
dragonwriter had some interesting things to say. However, they used a lot of hand-wavy claims.
That sounds normal to you?
- dragonwriter 12y agoThe only structural problem (and its a minor one, since the resulting ambiguity is readily resolvable from context) I see with that is that there are two different possible referents for "they" in the preceding sentence; in this particular case the fact that there are both singular and plural uses of "they" is relevant to why both referents are possible, but you can run into the same ambiguity with gender and number specific pronouns. Of course, there's no real good reason to use a pronoun there except for an excessive fondness for choppy sentences.