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List:       kde-i18n-doc
Subject:    Re: Some questions about today messages (trunk)
From:       "Yuri Chornoivan" <yurchor () ukr ! net>
Date:       2009-03-05 20:07:46
Message-ID: op.uqb4u8hjl2zvei () mycomp
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На Thu, 05 Mar 2009 21:50:59 +0200, Andrew Coles <andrew_coles@yahoo.co.uk> написав:

>
> --- On Thu, 5/3/09, Yuri Chornoivan <yurchor@ukr.net> wrote:
>> > Not in this context, no.  If multiple people
>> could be sat at the computer using the program at the same
>> time, 'The users...' would be correct.  However, here,
>> the program only interacts with a single user at once, so it
>> is 'the user' who is using it, and hence 'the user can
>> select verbs' etc.
>> >
>> > Andrew
>>
>> Thank you for this correction, but don't you find somewhat
>> strange that "the user" transform in "they" in the following
>> sentence?
>
> There are two sorts of they:
>
> (i) 'Generic' they - a pronoun referring to a non-specific number of  
> objects.  Probably the sort you're thinking of.
>
> (ii) 'Epicene' they - a genderless pronoun.
>
> In many ways, it's easier to think of they as being a homonym - much  
> like when I'm doing a piano recital I tie my shoelaces in a bow, and  
> take a bow when I've finished.
>
> Andrew
>

Thanks, now I know this. And thanks again for all the work you've done these days.

Yuri


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