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From: cwr@cts.com (Will Rose)
Subject: Re: Which language pays most -- C++ vs. Java?
Date: 1998/02/12
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The Goobers (docdwarf@erols.com) wrote:
: Richard Kenner wrote:
: > 
: > The more a "programmer" knows, the more "well rounded" they are.
: > I see no reason to set a limit to knowlege in any field: it's always
: > better to know more than to know less.

: BLEARGH!

: Read this sentence again, please:

:  'The more a "programmer" knows, the more "well rounded" they are.'

: I realise that you are trying to avoid sex-specification ('The more a
: "programmer" knows, the mofe "well rounded" he/she is.') but you BOTCHED
: it... now, repeat after me:

: 'Antecedants must agree with their consequent.'

: Notice the subtle ha-ha in this 'rule'?  'Antecedants' and 'their' are
: plurals, 'consequent' is a singular... is make for good joke to
: remembering Eenglish to be doing by, no?

: In your sentence 'programmer' is singular, 'knows' is singular, 'they'
: and 'are' am be pluralismers.

No.  The word 'they' is used here to mean 'he or she, gender neutral'.
It's an obsolescent form of the language, probably no longer taught,
but still relatively widely used among the well-educated in England.
The sentence, in British English at least, is well-formed.


Will
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