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The_Presidenttoday at 3:39 AM1 replyview on HN

"you can't stop eight year old from ..."

Phrasing this as "you" versus "a second party to the child" involves me, where I originally did not present a statement that would give the impression that I'd be involved. Keep me - "you" - out of it. I'm simply making fun of this analogy.


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folkravtoday at 2:41 PM

Let's not go down the semantic argument route and pretend like the impersonal you is not a thing in the English language.