egregious prescriptivism

[Laurence Horn]

At 8:49 AM -0500 9/10/04, Patti J. Kurtz wrote:
>GordonMJ at MISSOURI.EDU wrote:
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>>I didn't read Wilson Gray's comment as prescriptive. I thought he was =
>>reminding us of an earlier thread in which it was suggested that "be =
>>done" vs. "be through" might be indexical of some variety or other. =
>>Obviously, I forget the details.
>>
>Me, too-- and I thought he kidding bec. of that
>
And knowing Wilson, I'm *sure* he was.  Should we enforce the
appending of smiley faces in such cases?

larry