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Re: Sinclair Vectrex

From "Daniel Mandic" <daniel_mandic@hotmail.com>
Newsgroups comp.sys.sinclair
Subject Re: Sinclair Vectrex
Date 2017-11-28 19:07 +0000
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Johnny B Good wrote:

>  It is a colloquial expression when describing a situation to an 
> interested audience. The "you" and the "your" are being used in the 
> plural sense in this case. In the English language, we rely upon
> context to imply the plural meaning in this usage case - sorry about
> the lack of a formal rule with regard to these words  but that's just
> the way it is. :-(

Interesting. That's very new to me and I have no (comprehensive) sense
for the expression, yet.

Sorry for being off-topic, but would you mind giving me one other
example of that colloquial expression?


-- 
Daniel Mandic

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Sinclair Vectrex Duncan Snowden <duncan_s@talktalk.net> - 2017-11-24 00:41 +0000
  Re: Sinclair Vectrex "Daniel Mandic" <daniel_mandic@hotmail.com> - 2017-11-24 14:01 +0000
    Re: Sinclair Vectrex losborne74@gmail.com - 2017-11-27 08:53 -0800
      Re: Sinclair Vectrex "Daniel Mandic" <daniel_mandic@hotmail.com> - 2017-11-27 21:03 +0000
        Re: Sinclair Vectrex Johnny B Good <johnny-b-good@invalid.ntlworld.com> - 2017-11-28 17:16 +0000
          Re: Sinclair Vectrex "Daniel Mandic" <daniel_mandic@hotmail.com> - 2017-11-28 19:07 +0000
  Re: Sinclair Vectrex deKay <andyk@lofi-gaming.org.uk> - 2017-11-24 16:22 +0000

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