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Monday, 8 June 2015

You!

Synthetic personalisation relies on this - the ambiguity in English of whether you are referring to a single person or many when you use the second person pronoun "you". But it can cause problems. Here is a Guardian Language article which takes the stance that we need the precision that comes from a distinction e.g. you and youse. But could ambiguity be preferable? Thoughts?

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