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minus-squaremy_hat_stinks@programming.devlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2arrow-down1·4 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-up1·3 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’?
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’?