Re: Another stupid singular "their"

dontbother wrote:

Stephen Calder <calder9@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

dontbother wrote:


I hope that this is not an indication of your genuine level of
ability to discriminate between differences that are significantly
larger than a bread box.

You nad I might be able to do that, but clearly Mrs Bush cannot, and what sounds natural to her may very well sound natural to a majority
of ordinary people.


I consider myself to be an ordinary person. But even I can distinguish a tomato from a turnip at a hundred yards.


You're not ordinary in this sense. You have training in language use.

--
Stephen
Lennox Head, Australia
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