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Old 08-27-2012, 03:35 AM   #89
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Originally Posted by JohnGalt View Post
Misuse of pronouns has rhetorical consequences. If you say "they," then your reader will conjur the plural in his mind, and then be forced to reform that initial image when he deduces by the context that your "they" is actually singular.
Are you similarly confused by the use of the plural "You" instead of the singular "Thou"?
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