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Re: USAGE: 2nd pers. pron. for God

From:Thomas R. Wier <trwier@...>
Date:Thursday, September 12, 2002, 15:42
Quoting Nik Taylor <yonjuuni@...>:

> bnathyuw wrote: > > i imagine the most british > > rephrasing would be 'the judge ordered the prisoners > > to be placed in detention' > > That, to me, sounds like the prisoners were the ones who received the > orders, as if the judge said to them "Be placed in detention!" :-)
Right, although a small change to "ordered the prisoners (be) placed" would for me have the same truth conditions as the original sentence (with "be" optional). ========================================================================= Thomas Wier "I find it useful to meet my subjects personally, Dept. of Linguistics because our secret police don't get it right University of Chicago half the time." -- octogenarian Sheikh Zayed of 1010 E. 59th Street Abu Dhabi, to a French reporter. Chicago, IL 60637