Lkuznac Acigt-x <lkuznac@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in
news:K6-dnW_yF5rPlXLanZ2dnUVZ8qDinZ2d@[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.
If it's something that isn't in the language you choose to communicate
in, then it /will/ be misinterpreted.
> 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.
Misinterpreted as such.
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