This one time, at band camp, MJ Ray said: > Nick wrote: > > Trying to think of a more obvious example... how would you rephrase > > "Imagine that you are in a dark room when you hear someone enter. > > Having entered, they close the door behind them." without butchering > > it completely? > > In that phrase, it's not clear how many people have entered. In > NM pages, it was clear how many applicants there are. Actually, 'someone' is fairly clearly singular. But it could easily be rewritten as "Having entered, the person closed the door behind them." without butchering it. -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- | ,''`. Stephen Gran | | : :' : sgran@debian.org | | `. `' Debian user, admin, and developer | | `- http://www.debian.org | -----------------------------------------------------------------
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