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Talk:Most Common Writing Errors (view source)
Revision as of 21:38, January 27, 2013
, 21:38, January 27, 2013generalisations that are true are OK
::I just think the example is bad. If you say "someone" parked the car, that implies prima facie that you don't know the gender of the person. If you did, you would write a man or a woman. If you don't know the gender then you should write either "he or she" or "they". I understand the point that the author is making, but *he* has chosen a poor example. --[[User:DamianJohn|DamianJohn]] 02:14, 26 January 2013 (EST)
::I just think the example is bad. If you say "someone" parked the car, that implies prima facie that you don't know the gender of the person. If you did, you would write a man or a woman. If you don't know the gender then you should write either "he or she" or "they". I understand the point that the author is making, but *he* has chosen a poor example. --[[User:DamianJohn|DamianJohn]] 02:14, 26 January 2013 (EST)
:::When are we going to get to the section on generalisations (AKA sweeping statements.) [[User:AlanE|AlanE]] 14:36, 27 January 2013 (EST)
:::When are we going to get to the section on generalisations (AKA sweeping statements.) [[User:AlanE|AlanE]] 14:36, 27 January 2013 (EST)
::::Well when said generalisations are 100% true with no exceptions, such a generalisation is ok. I have been doing some research at a popular wiki encyclopedia, and I have discovered that all liberals are deceitful and all conservatives are trustworthy! Any purported conservative that is deceitful is actually just a liberal pretending to be a conservative. Noted liberals like Ted Haggard and Richard Nixon are pretty strong evidence of this phenomenon in action. --[[User:DamianJohn|DamianJohn]] 16:38, 27 January 2013 (EST)
==Notes==
==Notes==
*NB that I can use ''he'' here because I know that the author is Andy, a male. If I were unsure of which gender the author was (or if it were one or multiple authors) I would use "they"
*NB that I can use ''he'' here because I know that the author is Andy, a male. If I were unsure of which gender the author was (or if it were one or multiple authors) I would use "they"
*Exactly.
*Exactly.