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<span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"> </span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">L O W L A N D S - L - 22 November 2007 - Volume 01
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<br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">From: </span><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="HcCDpe"><span class="EP8xU" style="color: rgb(121, 6, 25);">
Paul Finlow-Bates</span> <span class="lDACoc"><<a href="mailto:wolf_thunder51@yahoo.co.uk">wolf_thunder51@yahoo.co.uk</a>></span></span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
Subject: </span><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="HcCDpe">LL-L "Lexicon" 2007.11.21 (04) [E]<br><br></span><blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); padding-left: 5px; margin-left: 5px; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
<div class="Ih2E3d">From: <span style="color: rgb(121, 6, 25);">Sandy Fleming</span> <span><<a href="mailto:sandy@scotstext.org" target="_blank">sandy@scotstext.org</a>></span> <br>Subject: LL-L "Lexicon"
2007.11.21 (01) [E]<br><br><br></div><div class="Ih2E3d">"It's a mistake to think clarity can be achieved by prescribing
<br>vocabulary against the grain of common usage, and it's a mistake to<br>think that you have a choice between Saxon and Latin in English: the<br>best choice for good English (or good any language) is the mot juste."
<br><br></div><div class="Ih2E3d"><font style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" color="#888888"><br>Sandy Fleming<br><a href="http://scotstext.org/" target="_blank">http://scotstext.org/</a></font><br></div></blockquote>
<div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Hi Sandy,</div> <div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"> </div> <div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">I
sort of two-thirds agree. The danger with English being
"over-classical" is the belief that such words are somehow naturally
better. This is an affliction that I find affects non-native learners,
especially those from Africa and SE Asia; There is clearly a taught
idea that "excavate" is good English whereas "dig" is somehow "low
class" or uneducated.</div> <div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"> </div> <div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">And this leads back to
a favourite bee in my bonnet; England has largely lost English, in a
way that Scotland hasn't lost Scots or the Netherlands, Dutch. We have
no national language in the same sense, only dialects that are pretty
well the exclusive property of the local users.</div><font style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" color="#888888"> <div> </div> <div>Paul</div></font><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
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