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[Grant Barrett]

I've responded back channel to Geoff, but he's misconstrued a couple
of things that happened on the show.

I think Geoff misunderstood what I was going to say about "till." I
was going to say what he said, only without the details: that "till"
is a perfectly okay form. But he did it better than I could and the
show was better for it.

"Keep up the fight" means "keep caring enough about language to get
into arguments over it" not "keep fighting to preserve language the
way it is."

Grant Barrett
Double-Tongued Word Wrester
http://www.doubletongued.org/

The Official Dictionary of Unofficial English (May 2006, McGraw-Hill)
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0071458042/


On Jun 28, 2006, at 18:33, Arnold M. Zwicky wrote:

> today's Talk of the Nation, on words and the web, with grant barrett,
> geoff pullum,  and martha barnette:
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>   http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5518444
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> and geoff's reactions:
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>   http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/003299.html
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