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Subject: Re: The Soap-Opera Hypothesis [was Re: The Soap Opera Hypothesis]
From: Daniel al-Autistiqui
Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2006 12:28:05 -0400
Newsgroups: sci.lang
On 29 Aug 2006 16:51:18 -0700, "mb" <azythos2@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>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.

Rare?

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