Greetings alexander!   
      
    ak> Hi, all!   
      
      
    ak> http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/30205410   
    ak> -----Beginning of the citation-----   
    ak> "Around three percent of the Swiss secretly eat cat or dog," said   
    ak> Tomi Tomek, founder and president of animal protection group SOS   
    ak> Chats Noiraigue."   
    ak> ----- The end of the citation -----   
      
    ak> 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.   
      
    ak> Or   
    ak> we can write "cat and dog" without any article?   
      
   Yes.   
      
    ak> I would say:   
    ak> "Around three percent of the Swiss secretly eat cats or dogs,"  said   
    ak> Tomi Tomek,  founder and president  of  animal  protection  group   
    ak> SOS  Chats Noiraigue."   
      
   That one sounds correct.   
      
    ak> or at least:   
      
    ak> "Around three percent of the Swiss secretly eat the cat or dog,"   
    ak> said Tomi Tomek,  founder and president  of  animal  protection   
    ak> 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.   
      
      
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