"last stitch effort"

[Dennis R. Preston]

>You mean famously evil permissive LIBERAL *linguist* (makes snarling
>so much easier for many)

dInIs

>On Sep 24, 2004, at 12:44 PM, Wilson Gray wrote, on "supposably":
>
>>... Like "dookie," "supposably" is far
>>more widespread than I would ever have imagined. Won't somebody please
>>stand up for prescriptivism?!
>
>how would that help you?
>
>arnold, famously evil permissive *linguist* (snarl when you say that!)


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Dennis R. Preston
University Distinguished Professor of Linguistics
Department of Linguistics and Germanic, Slavic, Asian, and African Languages
A-740 Wells Hall
Michigan State University
East Lansing, MI 48824
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preston at msu.edu