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- From: iad@cogsci.ed.ac.uk (Ivan A Derzhanski)
- Newsgroups: alt.usage.english
- Subject: _1984_ and "they"
- Message-ID: <12215@kesson.ed.ac.uk>
- Date: 26 Dec 92 12:25:20 GMT
- Organization: Centre for Cognitive Science, Edinburgh, UK
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- I have just finished reading _Nineteen Eighty-Four_. The book is
- written in "he"-English, from cover to cover, except for _one_
- occurrence of singular "they". It is in Part 3, Chapter 6, where
- Julia says:
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- `You _want_ it to happen to the other person.
- You don't give a damn what they suffer.'
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- I'm pretty sure this is the only one (I've been reading very closely).
- I haven't read anything else by G Orwell, so I don't know what happens
- in his other books, though I intend to find out in the very near future.
- In the meantime I invite comments from the group.
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- `D'ye mind tellin me whit the two o ye are gaun oan aboot?' (The Glasgow
- Ivan A Derzhanski (iad@cogsci.ed.ac.uk; iad@chaos.cs.brandeis.edu) Gospel)
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