Originally posted by twhiteheadGiving an account does not actually require a recipient.report
Give a spoken or written account of something that one has observed, heard, done, or investigated.
Giving an account does not actually require a recipient.
But it does require the giver (who is the witness) of the account actually being there.
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Originally posted by lemon limeI see I misunderstood your post. The 'it' in your post is ambiguous. I thought you meant '... no one is there to hear the report' where as you appear to have meant '... no one is there to hear the thing being reported'.
"Generally speaking.
Why report if no one is there to hear it?"
A reporter is someone.
Although why you assumed the thing being reported was a sound, I am not sure.
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Originally posted by twhiteheadYou: Giving an account does not actually require a recipient.
I see I misunderstood your post. The 'it' in your post is ambiguous. I thought you meant '... no one is there to hear the report' where as you appear to have meant '... no one is there to hear the thing being reported'.
Although why you assumed the thing being reported was a sound, I am not sure.
KBH: "Generally speaking.
Why report if no one is there to hear it?"
The word 'it' refers to the word 'account' (of the event having been witnessed). The 'it' in my post was not my it, it was KBHs' it. The word 'account' came from you.
The point of my post is that I'm assuming someone (anyone) would not be a 'no one'. A giver of a report is not a no one. The giver of a report is a someone. I see the meaning of 'no one' as literal, and not as a value judgement.
Although why you assumed the thing being reported was a sound, I am not sure.
Why you assume I'm assuming the report was a sound is something only you can explain, because I made no such assumption.
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Originally posted by twhiteheadKBH: "Generally speaking.
I see I misunderstood your post. The 'it' in your post is ambiguous. I thought you meant '... no one is there to hear the report' where as you appear to have meant '... no one is there to hear the thing being reported'.
Although why you assumed the thing being reported was a sound, I am not sure.
Why report if no one is there to hear it?"
You: Although why you assumed the thing being reported was a sound, I am not sure.
Why you assume what KBH said is my assumption, I am not sure. But I think it may be because you lost track of who is saying what.