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Warren Laruth, the founder of La Ruth's restaurant in Gretna, LA (just across the river from the French Quarter) was fanatic about measurement. He weighed things -- especially spices and herbs -- and insisted that his cooks use exactly the same proportions as he did in his recipes.
In contrast, many New Orleans chefs use the same method as bel's Mammie: a bit of that, a pinch of that, a drizzle of this, a toss of that.
As between chefs of the two persuasions, their differences are about as deep and firmly held as the differences between prescriptivists and the practicioners of the Humpty Dumpty school on this board.
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> prescriptivists and the practicioners of the Humpty Dumpty school
bada-bing!
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between prescriptivists and the practicioners of the Humpty Dumpty school on this board
Let's see what my handy dandy universal translator spits out: "betwixt uptight old Missises Grundies and descriptive linguists". OK, I understand you now. BTW, what's the plural of Mrs? Putting on my prescriptivist tam o'shanter, shouldn't between (cf. unique) only be used with two single entities on either side?
Ceci n'est pas un seing.
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… the practicioners of the Humpty Dumpty school on this board.
Another commonly held misconception. We are not each individual Humpty Dumpties. Humpty Dumpty is the great mass of users of a language and he does determine what words mean. The alternative is the prescriptivist notion that if it works in practice but not in theory something must be wrong with the practice.
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… the practicioners of the Humpty Dumpty school on this board.
Another commonly held misconception. We are not each individual Humpty Dumpties. Humpty Dumpty is the great mass of users of a language and he does determine what words mean. The alternative is the prescriptivist notion that if it works in practice but not in theory something must be wrong with the practice.
Ahhh, then the kings!
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Another commonly held misconception. We are not each individual Humpty Dumpties. Humpty Dumpty is the great mass of users of a language and he does determine what words mean. The alternative is the prescriptivist notion that if it works in practice but not in theory something must be wrong with the practice.
never before (at least hereabouts) has it been 'splained so descriptively.
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you mean like Humpty Dumpty is a metaphor or analogy or sumpin'?
cool.
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between prescriptivists and the practicioners of the Humpty Dumpty school on this board
Let's see what my handy dandy universal translator spits out: "betwixt uptight old Missises Grundies and descriptive linguists". OK, I understand you now. BTW, what's the plural of Mrs? Putting on my prescriptivist tam o'shanter, shouldn't between (cf. unique) only be used with two single entities on either side?
You go, nuncle! 
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How can you weigh herbs, or rather what good would it do? The flavour would still vary with the season, the soil and even the time of day you picked it.
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How can you weigh herbs, or rather what good would it do? The flavour would still vary with the season, the soil and even the time of day you picked it.
The only way to add herbs and spices is "to taste."
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