• my_hat_stinks@programming.dev
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    4 days ago

    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”.

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      4 days ago

      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’?

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        3 days ago

        I think you’ve missed the point. You don’t say it that way because it’s ambiguous and it’s natural to avoid the ambiguity. The same applies to your example; you’re speaking in an intentionally awkward way and you already know how you’d say it normally.