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14 Nov 2024 22:24:37 EST (-0500)
  Re: It's a riddle  
From: Darren New
Date: 8 Feb 2008 17:10:37
Message: <47acd35d$1@news.povray.org>
Warp wrote:
> Darren New <dne### [at] sanrrcom> wrote:
>> Warp wrote:
>>> scott <sco### [at] laptopcom> wrote:
>>>> "not as scary as your two faces" sounds better to me.  No idea if it's 
>>>> correct or not.
>>>   That would mean a person with two faces... :P
> 
>> *Sounds* right to me. "Your" can refer to plural, so if it's clear from 
>> context you're talking to two people, it wouldn't be confusing.
> 
>   I suppose that being a native speaker you know better. It still sounds
> a bit weird to me, though.

It sounds weird to me too. Not wrong, just unusual. Hmmm...

"Not as scary as you guys' faces."  It is, after all, informal.


-- 
   Darren New / San Diego, CA, USA (PST)
     On what day did God create the body thetans?


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