Subj : Applied Behavior Analysis.
To   : Denis Mosko
From : Ardith Hinton
Date : Fri Oct 02 2020 22:36:39

Hi, Denis!  Recently you wrote in a message to All:

 AH>  we need to know more about this person & about
 AH>  the world in which s
 DM>  s = she?

 AH>  /he lives.


          I could have typed "he or she", but "s/he" is easier.  I could also have assumed an educated audience would understand that when I was growing up the masculine singular pronoun was the default if there any chance one of the individuals involved might be male.  Or I could have typed "they", which many people nowadays prefer but which will never sound quite right to me....  :-))



 DM>  IOW = ?


          Fidonet abbreviation of "in other words".  See next paragraph.  :-)



 AH>  the applications may differ according to the
 AH>  context, as is often the case with "rules"
 AH>  in English....  :-)


          I reduced about 50 lines of psychobabble (i.e. educational psychology jargon) to a more manageable size & translated it into plainer English.  Then I reduced it even further & connected it to what my readers already know....  :-Q




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