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Re: manual style
From: |
Han-Wen Nienhuys |
Subject: |
Re: manual style |
Date: |
Thu, 9 Sep 2004 00:29:52 +0200 |
address@hidden writes:
> The Oxford English Grammar (1996) by Sidney Greenbaum suggests to use generic
> singulars they, them, their:
I second this.
> you would write
>
> "If you want to do foo, you should write bar in your LilyPond score".
>
IMO, it makes the text awkward, since almost every sentence will have
to be prefixed with "if you want to do foo". I think that "you" has
a place in a text where "I" is also featured.
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Han-Wen Nienhuys | address@hidden | http://www.xs4all.nl/~hanwen