egregious prescriptivism

[Patti J. Kurtz]

Forty lashes with a wet noodle?

laurence.horn at YALE.EDU wrote:

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>Poster:       Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at YALE.EDU>
>Subject:      Re: egregious prescriptivism
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>At 8:49 AM -0500 9/10/04, Patti J. Kurtz wrote:
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>>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.
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>>Me, too-- and I thought he kidding bec. of that
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>And knowing Wilson, I'm *sure* he was.  Should we enforce the
>appending of smiley faces in such cases?
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>larry
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Dr. Patti J. Kurtz

Assistant Professor, English

Director of the Writing Center

Minot State University

Minot, ND 58707



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