Lord Flame Stryke wrote:
> Draco18s <draco18s2_NO_@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in
> news:MPG.224dbae05cc2de5a989cb0@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>>>> 4 questions:
>>>> Which of you have some children? Do you/they/they think
>>>> they/they/you are dragons?
>>> That was 2 questions. And, no, I have no hatchlings, other than my
>>> one online with Viri, and that one /knows/ he's a dragon, as he
>>> hatched online.
>> Actualy, it was four. "you/they/they" matches up with the following
>> "they/they/you" at a one-to-one respective ordering for three
>> different questions.
Yes.
The "(s)" notation denotes a new grammatical number which English does
not have natively: "1 or more"; one reads it as alternatively singular
or plural.
The "/" notation here denotes three questions; one reads it successively
as all three.
> It was 1 question with 3 options. It's like adding the optional "(s)"
> to a question, wherein you choose which one applies (ie, "Which line(s)
> should be quoted?").
No.
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