Posted by Jukka K. Korpela on 07/08/07 13:47

Scripsit Beauregard T. Shagnasty:

> GreatArtist wrote:
>
>> I think you're not competent to write messages on Usenet until you
>> stop being an asshole.
>
> Who isn't competent? You didn't quote anything.

Well, this was rather obvious: "GreatArtist" used the pronoun "you" in the
generic sense, referring to any person - and, in this, particularly
applicable to "GreatArtist" himself/herself/itself.

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Jukka K. Korpela ("Yucca")
http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/

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