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Page 5 of 5 < 1 2 3 4 5 Topic Options #115784 - 11/22/03 09:30 AM Re: It's hoi polloi time again grapho addict Registered: 11/09/03 Posts: 619 Loc: Carpal Tunnel Country Shakespeare's an easy one, since he happily broke anything we consider a grammatical rule. Here's t'other side of the coin, Shanks, in a NY Times review of "Doing our own thing" by linguist John McWhorter: http://www.nytimes.com/2003/11/16/books/review/16CALDWET.html Extract: At some point in the 1960's, Americans lost faith in their written language, and settled for reproducing a less demanding (but more ''real'') oral variant on the page and in public. The result, McWhorter asserts, has been a steep and steady decline in the quality of political oratory, poetry, musical theater, preaching and -- ultimately -- thinking. Top #115785 - 11/22/03 10:05 AM Re: It's hoi polloi time again Buffalo Shrdlu Carpal Tunnel Registered: 06/24/02 Posts: 7184 Loc: Vermont welcome, grapho! interesting article, I missed that on Sunday. _________________________ formerly known as etaoin... Top Page 5 of 5 < 1 2 3 4 5 Previous Topic Index Next Topic Preview Hop to: General Topics ------   Information and announcements   Q&A about words   Wordplay and fun   Words and languages in schools   Miscellany   Weekly Themes   Looking for (writers, speakers, ...) (Old) Weekly themes. (have been consolidated into a single forum above) ------   Words from medicine   Beheading words   Meta-words   Words from classical mythology   Animal Safari   Words with unusual etymologies   Eponyms or words derived from people's names.   Loanwords from German   English as a global language Moderator:  Jackie  Print Topic Switch to Threaded Mode View profile Send a PM View homepage Add to your Watched Users View posts View profile Send a PM View homepage Add to your Watched Users View posts Forum Stats 8419 Members 16 Forums 13684 Topics 209684 Posts Max Online: 3341 @ 12/09/11 02:15 PM Newest Members fgjhgjk, Nora Francis, sabosophie, Lore Lorena, lukaslini 8418 Registered Users Who's Online 0 registered (), 47 Guests and 5 Spiders online. Key: Admin, Global Mod, Mod Top Posters (30 Days) LukeJavan8 85 jenny jenny 68 wofahulicodoc 45 endymion6 44 BranShea 34 Rhubarb Commando 23 Buffalo Shrdlu 19 Faldage 18 zmjezhd 16 Jackie 15 May Su M Tu W Th F Sa 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31

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