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minus-squareMr_Blott@feddit.uklinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·16 hours agoYeah as an example a simple sentence like “My daughter and her boyfriend went to a concert but she got ill so they had to come home” Can’t change to “My daughter and her boyfriend went to a concert but they got ill so they had to come home” It loses its meaning. My daughter and her boyfriend went to a concert but my daughter got ill so they had to come home" is extra “work” It’s not perfect
minus-squaremy_hat_stinks@programming.devlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2arrow-down1·7 hours agoBut you literally just demonstrated how dealing with ambiguous pronouns is a non-issue? You’d get the exact same ambiguity with “a mother and daughter went to a concert but [she] got ill”.
minus-squareMr_Blott@feddit.uklinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·6 hours agoBut you would never say that, unless you actually wanted to confuse people! In your example, you’d have to say the mother or the daughter, but not in my example How does your example read if you change ‘she’ for ‘they’?
Yeah as an example a simple sentence like “My daughter and her boyfriend went to a concert but she got ill so they had to come home”
Can’t change to “My daughter and her boyfriend went to a concert but they got ill so they had to come home”
It loses its meaning.
My daughter and her boyfriend went to a concert but my daughter got ill so they had to come home" is extra “work”
It’s not perfect
But you literally just demonstrated how dealing with ambiguous pronouns is a non-issue? You’d get the exact same ambiguity with “a mother and daughter went to a concert but [she] got ill”.
But you would never say that, unless you actually wanted to confuse people!
In your example, you’d have to say the mother or the daughter, but not in my example
How does your example read if you change ‘she’ for ‘they’?