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