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minus-squareMr_Blott@feddit.uklinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·10 hours agoYeah as an example a simple sentence like “My daughter and her boyfriend went to a concert but she got ill so they had to come home” Can’t change to “My daughter and her boyfriend went to a concert but they got ill so they had to come home” It loses its meaning. My daughter and her boyfriend went to a concert but my daughter got ill so they had to come home" is extra “work” It’s not perfect
minus-squaremy_hat_stinks@programming.devlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·43 minutes agoBut 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”.
Yeah as an example a simple sentence like “My daughter and her boyfriend went to a concert but she got ill so they had to come home”
Can’t change to “My daughter and her boyfriend went to a concert but they got ill so they had to come home”
It loses its meaning.
My daughter and her boyfriend went to a concert but my daughter got ill so they had to come home" is extra “work”
It’s not perfect
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”.