14th July 2003, 9:22 PM
In that case, "you" is actually reffering to someone! One actually would be asking about, well all of humanity, specifically! It's when you do stuff like give a list of instructions like "first you put on the shirt" that it's wrong. How would you know that that's what they first do?
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)