Wang 300 Calc --> 0/1 power labels

Sridhar Ayengar ploopster at gmail.com
Tue Sep 11 09:16:56 CDT 2007


Liam Proven wrote:
> Oh, FFS!
> 
> Hint: the word "you" in colloquial English usage does not always refer
> directly to an individual or to the person being addressed.
> 
> For example: "If you want to learn to fly a plane, you have to
> demonstrate good vision and a degree of numeracy". This would be a
> perfectly reasonable statement in a magazine or newspaper article,
> without any implication that every reader of that journal is an
> aspiring pilot.

Whenever I'm making a statement similar to the one in your example, I 
always try to use the word "one" instead of "you".  It's clearer and it 
sounds less accusatory.  I forget sometimes, though.

Peace...  Sridhar


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