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[Wilson Gray]

On Sun, Feb 19, 2012 at 5:47 PM, Arnold Zwicky <zwicky at stanford.edu> wrote:
> maybe you should be wary of accepting at face value things you were taught in high school.

Are you suggesting that I simply trash all the effort that I've spent,
over the years, transforming my native Mercan through Ang-lish and
Ing-lish into Ing-glish, though I still have problems with are/or and
since/sense?

What a brilliant idea! Now, why haven't *I* thought of that, I wonder?
It's so totally straightforward. After all, the purpose of speech is
communication, however that may be accomplished. Style is a triviality
unworthy of note, of no more consequence than any other, loosely
speaking, suprasegmental.That's why, in the English-speaking world, an
author like James Joyce is totally disrespected as being irrelevant.

Gnome sane?

Were I a critic, I might qualify that suggestion as "godlike in its
casual, unthinking arrogance, though, of course, meant well," with no
malice, so to speak, aforethought, as it were, needless to say.

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-Wilson
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All say, "How hard it is that we have to die!"---a strange complaint
to come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
-Mark Twain

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