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Re: The Soap-Opera Hypothesis [was Re: The Soap Opera Hypothesis]

Subject: Re: The Soap-Opera Hypothesis [was Re: The Soap Opera Hypothesis]
From: "mb"
Date: 29 Aug 2006 16:51:18 -0700
Newsgroups: sci.lang
NoMo wrote:
> Ron Hardin wrote:
>
> > There are compound nouns, like whistleblower and gatekeeper
> > and wrongdoing, that you hear only on the news.
>
> Something may be wrong with your ears. Have you asked an audiologist
> about the problem?

I think Hardin used "you" as impersonal pronoun (="one"). If you belong
to some rare subgroup that uses that kind of stuff in speech you
(personal) would not be addressed.


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