heart-rendering

[Dennis R. Preston]

Oooops! Yes, even the old-fashioned way.

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>>LH,
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>>I call your "screed" (which my Eudora likes) and "prescriptivists"
>>and raise you Eudora's rejection of "sociolingusitic(s)."
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>Even if you spell it in the old-fashioned way?  (that "lingusitic" is
>one I often manage myself, even without the "socio-" prefix)
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>LH
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>>dInIs
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>>>At 7:50 AM -0800 2/15/08, Jonathan Lighter wrote:
>>>>In his prepared public statement on yesterday's campus shootings,
>>>>NIU President John Peters described the outpouring of public
>>>>sympathy as "renewing and heart-rendering."  He used the word
>>>>"heart-rendering" in this connection twice within one minute.
>>>>
>>>>     This is the first time I've heard "heart-rendering" [sic] used as
>>>>a synomnym for "moving; heart-warming."
>>>>
>>>>     JL
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>>>You've been living a (perhaps enviably) sheltered life.  I'm quite
>>>sure I've heard it, and a rather substantial number of the 56,100 or
>>>so raw g-hits involve naive occurrences, as opposed to screeds by
>>>prescriptivists (some detailing with delightful gruesomeness what the
>>>process of rendering a heart would entail) that would presumably be
>>>unnecessary in the absence of other naive occurrences...
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>>>LH, wondering why Eudora thinks I made up not only "prescriptivists"
>>>but "screed"
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>>Department of English
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Dennis R. Preston
University Distinguished Professor
Department of English
15C Morrill Hall
Michigan State University
East Lansing, MI 48824
517-353-4736
preston at msu.edu

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