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From: misrael@scripps.edu (Mark Israel)
Subject: Re: Prescriptivism vs. Descriptivism (was: "try and")
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In article <debaron-1012960959450001@gauss.english.uiuc.edu>, debaron@uiuc.edu (Dennis Baron) writes:

> That's why I think grammar teachers are better off teaching not rules of
> etiquette (which tend to reinforce the notion that the world is indeed
> flat) but tools of linguistic analysis--everything from phonemes to social
> and historical linguistic phenomena.

   Well, I don't want to be dogmatic about the matter.  Generally 
speaking, I'm a round-earther, but -- maybe the earth *is* a bit flat.  
Next time my piano-tuner comes round, I'll ask him to take a look.

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misrael@scripps.edu			Mark Israel
