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<blockquote data-quote="AE 87" data-source="post: 248824" data-attributes="member: 195"><p>While I appreciate the efforts of [USER=219]@Blumpkin Souffle[/USER] and [USER=2875]@Yomanser[/USER] to raise the grammatical awareness of GTSwarm, I'm sure that there are many in this forum who believe that they are treading on my turf as the one who always know best about all things (isn't that right [USER=198]@forensicbuzz[/USER]). </p><p></p><p>Well, I think the op's grammar is fine. The protasis--If I see anyone not in white tonight--evokes conceptualization of an implicit "I-thou" relationship in which the "I" sees the "anyone." Consequently, the apodosis can legitimately refer to that "anyone" by using the generic "you." From the perspective of the speaker, the act of seeing the "anyone" (in protasis) turns that "anyone" into a "you" (in apodosis). Grammar isn't math and cannot be abstracted fully from its conceptual context. We see this in the need for "they" to refer to a singular indefinite when English speakers no longer hear "he" in this way.</p><p></p><p>In other words, yall can't abstract the grammar question from the concrete situation of the pitiable fool who shows up at BDS not in white.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="AE 87, post: 248824, member: 195"] While I appreciate the efforts of [USER=219]@Blumpkin Souffle[/USER] and [USER=2875]@Yomanser[/USER] to raise the grammatical awareness of GTSwarm, I'm sure that there are many in this forum who believe that they are treading on my turf as the one who always know best about all things (isn't that right [USER=198]@forensicbuzz[/USER]). Well, I think the op's grammar is fine. The protasis--If I see anyone not in white tonight--evokes conceptualization of an implicit "I-thou" relationship in which the "I" sees the "anyone." Consequently, the apodosis can legitimately refer to that "anyone" by using the generic "you." From the perspective of the speaker, the act of seeing the "anyone" (in protasis) turns that "anyone" into a "you" (in apodosis). Grammar isn't math and cannot be abstracted fully from its conceptual context. We see this in the need for "they" to refer to a singular indefinite when English speakers no longer hear "he" in this way. In other words, yall can't abstract the grammar question from the concrete situation of the pitiable fool who shows up at BDS not in white. [/QUOTE]
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