• catt and dog

    From Roy Witt@1:387/22 to alexander koryagin on Fri Jul 6 22:01:02 2018
    Greetings alexander!

    Hi, all!


    http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/30205410
    -----Beginning of the citation-----
    "Around three percent of the Swiss secretly eat cat or dog," said
    Tomi Tomek, founder and president of animal protection group SOS
    Chats Noiraigue."
    ----- The end of the citation -----

    Should a reporter replay the errors of the person he interviewed?

    Yes. The reporter should do this to show what the person interviewed had actually said about it. In this way, the reporter does not interject his
    own opinon to the interview.

    Or
    we can write "cat and dog" without any article?

    Yes.

    I would say:
    "Around three percent of the Swiss secretly eat cats or dogs," said
    Tomi Tomek, founder and president of animal protection group
    SOS Chats Noiraigue."

    That one sounds correct.

    or at least:

    "Around three percent of the Swiss secretly eat the cat or dog,"
    said Tomi Tomek, founder and president of animal protection
    group SOS Chats Noiraigue."

    I like the first one best. What it says is that a percentage of Swiss
    people eat cats or dogs (in a pluralty) as a group. With the edition of
    the word 'the' the sentence, you're now talking about the cat and dog as a singular entity.


    Have a day!

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