Wang 300 Calc --> 0/1 power labels - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

11 Sep 2007

There's a less often used way of avoiding this problem. 
It's the use of 'one' as in 'If one wants to learn to fly then one
should go to a good school'

Rod

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[mailto:cctech-bounces at classiccmp.org] On Behalf Of Fred Cisin
Sent: 11 September 2007 23:05
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Subject: Re: Wang 300 Calc --> 0/1 power labels

...
  Oh, FFS!
 Hint: the word "you" in colloquial English usage does not always refer 
...
  directly to an individual or to the person being
addressed.
 For example: "If you want to learn to fly a plane, you have to 
 demonstrate good vision and a degree of numeracy". This would be a 
 perfectly reasonable statement in a magazine or newspaper article, 
 without any implication that every reader of that journal is an 
 aspiring pilot. 
When you use the "impersonal YOU", you run a risk of offending those who
take it personally.