gengwall

Let’s go back to Kristen’s example. Although I don’t remember the specifics it is easy enough to replicate because I am a manager.

TL – if I am a manager and you are a supervisor under me and you are having a problem with an employee, we’ll call her Cheryl, you might come to me and say something like “I’m having trouble with Cheryl – she is doing ‘X'”. Is it not a legitimate reply for me to say “well, nobody should be doing ‘X’.”? Is it not also legitmate for me to say, “as for Cheryl, she can fix her record if she does ‘Y’.”? I have moved from generic to specific. The generic “nobody” is directly related to the specific “Cheryl” because of ‘X’. The subject is the same and yet the generic to specific pattern is perfectly legitimate.