atw: Re: Article: In Defense of Common English

I particularly like the fact that you used a time machine to get an article issued on 24 April 2009. You're always ahead of the game!
I admit I'm more reticent than ambivalent about common usage determining that mistakes are no longer mistakes. How do we define when is common enough? When it's understandable?... When your favourite dictionary says so?
I hereby decree that whenever I make a "mistake" it is now acceptable common usage. 

Cheers,
Terry

Quoting Stuart Burnfield <slb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:


Topical:
"A sizable group of people is partial to attending discussions and reading books about language. But what this group wants to hear is antithetical to what scholars of this subject want to say." 

http://chronicle.com/temp/reprint.php?id=1200zq259py5hw6r0xs6h43x9jzd2gf3

Stuart






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