Re: At peace with Debian (was: This is the last war...)
On Mon, Jul 15, 2002 at 03:14:52PM -0000, Grant Edwards wrote:
> > So we could rewrite the above:
> >
> > No professional in their right mind would use Debian on their
> > business computers,
>
> Ah good, you've chosen a verb tense that has identical
> singular/plural forms. But, you've got a singular antecedent
> with a plural pronoun. Change "professional" to
> "professionals", and "mind" to "minds" and I'm be happy. :)
See my other posts for the case supporting singular "they". If
Shakespeare on George Bernard Shaw can do it, so can anyone else ;)
--
Eric G. Miller <egm2@jps.net>
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