Prescriptivism and the cinema

[Wilson Gray]

Quite so!

-Wilson

On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 10:24 PM, victor steinbok <aardvark66 at gmail.com> wrote:
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> FWIW I was not *claiming* that this proscription is authentic, but
> rather suggesting that it was plausible in a manner described by
> Wilson. Of course, you can find a false prescriptivist claim for just
> about anything...
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> VS-)
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