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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>Dear corpora members, I wonder if you read the book
and the review on it in New Yorker. In case, you have any opinion, send it to
me. This is what I wrote to prof.Johanna Rubba = Write back to <A
href="mailto:yutamb@mail.ru">yutamb@mail.ru</A> Yuri
Tambovtsev</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>You must understand that many linguists as well as
I, never read Acocella's review. Neither have we read the opus itself. May be
Joan is correct. By the title of the book I can tell, it is not deep. Be well,
Yuri Tambovtsev=</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial><FONT size=3 face="Times New Roman"> 'Joan
Acocella has a review of Henry Hitchings' "The "The Language Wars"
in <BR>this week's New Yorker. It stinks. Real bad. She can't tell
the <BR>difference between prescriptive and descriptive rules. She
accuses <BR>Hitchings of making illogical arguments and then makes several
of her <BR>own (accepting language change is tantamount to going back to
the <BR>dentistry of Samuel Johnson's time???) She equates
vernacular <BR>languages with slang. I've rarely seen anything this bad in
the NYer.<BR><BR>I sent in a response letter.<BR><BR>Jo<BR><BR><BR>Dr. Johanna
Rubba, Professor, Linguistics<BR>Linguistics Minor Advisor<BR>English
Department<BR>Cal Poly State University, San Luis Obispo<BR>Tel.
805.756.2184<BR>Dept. Tel 805.756.2596<BR>E-mail: </FONT><A href=""><FONT
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face="Times New Roman">jrubba@calpoly.edu</FONT></A><BR></DIV></FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>