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<span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"> </span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">L O W L A N D S - L - 06 January 2008 - Volume 05
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<br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">From: </span><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="HcCDpe"><span class="EP8xU" style="color: rgb(121, 6, 25);">
M.-L. Lessing</span> <span class="lDACoc"><<a href="mailto:marless@gmx.de">marless@gmx.de</a>></span></span><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"> </span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Subject: </span><span class="HcCDpe"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">LL-L "Grammar" 2008.01.06 (02) [E]</span><br><br></span><div id="1ex8" class="ArwC7c ckChnd">
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<div><font face="Times New Roman">What about this:</font></div>
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<div><font face="Times New Roman"><a href="http://www.newscientist.com/channel/being-human/mg19726374.300?DCMP=NLC-nletterbanner&nsref=mg19726374.300" target="_blank">http://www.newscientist.com/channel/being-human/mg19726374.300?DCMP=NLC-nletterbanner&nsref=mg19726374.300
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<div><font face="Times New Roman">I think the neutral pronoun a fine idea. Only
"yo" doesn't sound pretty. Or is the "need" for such a neutral pronoun
artificial? </font></div>
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<div><font face="Times New Roman">Marlou<br><br><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">----------</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
</font><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">From: </span><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="HcCDpe"><span class="EP8xU" style="color: rgb(91, 16, 148);">Jacqueline Bungenberg de Jong
</span> <span class="lDACoc"><<a href="mailto:Dutchmatters@comcast.net">Dutchmatters@comcast.net</a>></span></span><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"> </span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Subject: </span><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="HcCDpe">LL-L "Grammar" 2008.01.06 (02) [E]<br><br></span><p style="margin-left: 0.5in; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
<font color="navy" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt; color: navy;">Ron says "</span></font>And if you ask if it's <i><span style="font-style: italic;">really</span></i> needed, well, let me mention that I
have been in situations in which the lack of number clarification of
"you" was a detriment and led to misunderstandings"</p>
<p style="margin-left: 0.5in; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><font color="navy" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt; color: navy;">I must say that after all these years in an
English speaking country, I still occasionally feel the need for a second
person plural. In Dutch there are the two forms. But if you are speaking to a
crowd you may use the second person single as long as you have made it clear
that you are addressing more than one person. At that moment it becomes as if
you are addressing everybody in the crowd personally.</span></font></p>
<p style="margin-left: 0.5in; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><font color="navy" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt; color: navy;" lang="NL">F.i. Gaan jullie maar gezellig in
de tuin zitten, je mag natuurlijk best eerst een drankje halen in de huiskamer.</span></font></p>
<font style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" color="navy" face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt; color: navy;">Ah yes, and a belated happy New Year to
everybody! Jacqueline</span></font><br></div></div>
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