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[David Bowie]

From:    Robert Hartwell Fiske <Vocabula at AOL.COM>

: Now free in Vocabula -- "Making Peace in the Language Wars" by Bryan A.
: Garner

: http://www.vocabula.com/2003/VROct03Garner.asp

Not a bad article, all in all, particularly in its description of the
excesses that both descriptivists and prescriptivists commit in their
attempts to get their jabs in at each other.

However, i find it somewhat amusing that Garner first criticizes Huddleston
& Pullum for advocating a peace that would involve prescriptivists making
all the changes, and then advocates a peace that would involve
descriptivists (at least, those descriptivists in whose camp i fall) making
all the changes.

A rapprochement between the two camps would be a good thing, IMO. However, i
suspect that it's not going to come about as the result of each side
presenting solutions that make perfect sense to that side (and,
unfortunately, *only* that side).

David, who doesn't capitalize "i" on purpose
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