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"... the scourge of descriptivism, or as i like to call it, the War on English."

Date: 2006-06-03 05:28 am (UTC)
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From: [identity profile] qwrrty.livejournal.com
Dude, that is so 1996. The terrorists have won, man!

Date: 2006-06-03 04:06 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] madbodger.livejournal.com
You prefer the prescriptivists? No split infinitives for you?

You are not Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.

Date: 2006-06-03 06:36 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] vardissakheli.livejournal.com
and I do not claim President Johnson's use of the slang expression "cool it" in a major speech.

Date: 2006-06-03 08:01 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] crankysysadmin.livejournal.com
How about "the scourge of prescriptivism, or as I like to call it, the War on Reality."

(note capital "i" for first-person singular pronoun)

*ducks*

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