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Here's a wonderfully-written takedown of this old screed from a linguistic perspective: http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=992 http://languagelog.ldc.upen
by derleth 15y ago
Here's a wonderfully-written takedown of this old screed from a linguistic perspective:
http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=992 http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=992
- gruseom 15y agoReally? I love Language Log, but I think that's one of the worst pieces I've seen there. It starts off nitpicky and ends up muddled.
- batista 15y agoNeither from a "liguistic perspective" (as in linguistics), nor particularly wonderfully-writen. Worst, it's not even much of a takedown. "Let us assume that you are breaking the sixth rule itself. Then a fortiori (pardon my Latin) you can't be failing to break any of the rules sooner than saying something outright barbarous. Which means, contra assumption, that you aren't breaking the rule after all. Doh!" Pleeease, isn't it bloody obvious that the 6th meta-rule does not count?