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<font color="#000000" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12px;margin:0in 0in 0pt"><div style="font-size:12.727272033691406px">From: <span name="Kevin Caldwell" class="" style="font-size:12.727272033691406px">Kevin Caldwell</span><span style="white-space:nowrap"> </span><span class="" style="white-space:nowrap"><a href="mailto:kevin.caldwell1963@verizon.net">kevin.caldwell1963@verizon.net</a></span><br>

Subject: <span style="white-space:nowrap">LL-L "Grammar" 2014.03.21 (01) [EN]</span></div><div style="font-size:12.727272033691406px"><span style="white-space:nowrap"><br></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif">

<span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)">May I propose [E]: I prepared to go slowly home thinking.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif">

<span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)">Kevin Caldwell<u></u><u></u></span></p>

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<div style="font-size:12.727272033691406px"><br></div><div style="font-size:12.727272033691406px">From: <span name="Andy Eagle" class="" style="font-size:12.727272033691406px">Andy Eagle</span><span style="white-space:nowrap"> </span><span class="" style="white-space:nowrap"><a href="mailto:andy@scots-online.org">andy@scots-online.org</a></span><br>

Subject: <span style="white-space:nowrap">LL-L "Grammar" 2014.03.21 (01) [EN]</span></div><div style="font-size:12.727272033691406px"><br></div><div style="font-size:12.727272033691406px">Ted wrote<br><div class="im">

<br>> But when you say or write something which is intended to be<br>understood by any English (say) speaker, then it is a good idea<br>to adopt more formal and rigid constraints on your language use.<br>"Who's that pretty girl?" would be understood throughout the<br>

English-speaking world; "Fa's yon bonnie quine?" would not.<br><br></div>Why would anyone want to write or perhaps even say "Fa's yon bonnie quine?" when using English?<br><br>Scots is not English according to the ECRML <a href="http://www.coe.int/t/dg4/education/minlang/default_en.asp" target="_blank">http://www.coe.int/t/dg4/education/minlang/default_en.asp</a><br>

<br>Using "Fa's yon bonnie quine?" in English would make as much sense as using “Hvem er den smukke pige?”<br><br>Anyway, I suspect some commentators often conflate grammar with style and register then gleefully display their ignorance for all to see.<br>

</div><div style="font-size:12.727272033691406px"><br></div><div style="font-size:12.727272033691406px"><span style="color:rgb(136,136,136)">Andy Eagle</span><br></div><div style="font-size:12.727272033691406px"><br></div>

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