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#180081 - 11/04/08 03:14 PM Re: NEW bird on the block [Re: twosleepy]
old hand
Registered: 12/18/06
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What, Long tailed or pretty sounding?
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#180082 - 11/04/08 05:16 PM
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#180083 - 11/04/08 05:46 PM
Carpal Tunnel
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WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOW!
Edited by BranShea (11/05/08 02:36 AM)
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#180821 - 12/10/08 04:28 PM 
Carpal Tunnel
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the building for the state government. Just curious._________________________
----please, draw me a sheep----
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#181444 - 01/04/09 05:08 PM Re: Blackbird fly ! [Re: The Pook]
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#181464 - 01/04/09 08:49 PM
Carpal Tunnel
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You're right, it was not Churchill. It was Mark Twain. Or either him or Oscar Wilde, one. Certainly we can't blame this one on Shakespeare.
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#181466 - 01/04/09 09:38 PM
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#181467 - 01/04/09 09:52 PM
old hand
Registered: 02/28/08
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Loc: western NY
If you're inclined to prescriptivism, it's what some people have written down in books telling the world how to speak and write "real" English.
If you're inclined to descriptivism, it's what people say when they are using what they call English.
If you're a grammatical fence-sitter, it's something between those two poles.
Does that answer your question? :0)
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#181469 - 01/05/09 01:40 PM
Carpal Tunnel
Registered: 06/23/06
Posts: 5249
Loc: Netherlands, the Hague
the building for the state government. Just curious.
Look at the date of the post closely and you'll find out.
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#181518 - 01/07/09 02:29 AM
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Loc: USA, North Carolina
If you're inclined to prescriptivism, it's what some people have written down in books telling the world how to speak and write "real" English.
If you're inclined to descriptivism, it's what people say when they are using what they call English.
If you're a grammatical fence-sitter, it's something between those two poles.
Does that answer your question? :0)
Actually, no; but that is because I'm never sure which of these I'm supposed to be inclined to. When the younger theologs at Westminster Seminary Philadelphia (USA) started spouting off about their new perspectivalism, I sort of got lost. Which is objective and which is subjective? Prescriptivism or Descriptivism? It is not in my nature to be a Mugwump.
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