[Gambas-user] What means this errors?

[Jussi Lahtinen]

I was just correcting your false correction. Please see the original
message by Jorge. It is exactly the same in Spanish and in English. "You"
can refer to personal or impersonal (but also plural). And in Spanish "tu"
and "usted" can refer to personal or impersonal (but always singular,
informal and formal accordingly).
I could not guess such a simple correction would lead to debate. All this
is very easy to verify if you still not believe me.


Jussi



On Saturday, July 29, 2023, T Lee Davidson <t.lee.davidson at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 7/28/23 21:14, Jussi Lahtinen wrote:
>
>>
>>     There is no impersonal "you" in English. That word, however, can be
>> used in an impersonal manner.
>>
>>
>> That is exactly what "impersonal you" means. There seems to be even
>> academic papers about it.
>> Example here: https://www.sciencedirect.com/
>> science/article/abs/pii/S0378216612001208 <https://www.sciencedirect.com
>> /science/article/abs/pii/S0378216612001208>
>>
>> Jussi
>>
>
> I did not write '"impersonal you"', Jussi. I wrote 'impersonal "you"'
> referring to the word itself as opposed to its usage. Stop trying to
> reframe it.
>
> Spanish has something like five different words for the English "you". In
> English the word for the personal "you" and the impersonal "you" is, get
> this, the very same word, "you". There is no impersonal "you" in English.
> How its meaning is to be understood depends on its context and usage.
>
> Now, was it not enough that Jorge understood that his message was received
> as it was intended? Or do you think it beneficial somehow to stir up some
> useless argument?
>
>
> --
> Lee
>
>
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