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by lkrubner 1782 days ago
She is publishing under her real name

You are responding to her yet you use the 3rd person. You meant to write:

“You are publishing under your real name”

This is a complicated use of first person and third person:

She sounds as if she genuinely believes somebody will send her anthrax through the post - do you really believe that is a real possibility or do you think her battle with sexism in the workplace has gone slightly off the rails?

You meant to write:

“You sound as if you genuinely believe somebody will send you anthrax through the post - do you really believe that is a real possibility or do you think your battle with sexism in the workplace has gone slightly off the rails?”

Since she wrote it, she probably does believe it.

1 comments

The confusion here is that I didn't realize I was speaking to the author. She clarified this in a response comment with 'I am the author'.