Nothing makes me want to commit homicidal atrocities like typoes in professionaly published books. After so many reprints, why can't they correct obvious spelling errors? I can understand wanting to maintain the authentic wording othe author, but when there are clearly errors in typing or grammar, why can't they be corrected as soon as they become identified? What irks me the most is the ubiquitous "you instead of your" and "the the," among others. Errors exist in old novels, new novels, and non-fiction, and continue to exist despite being printed millions of times. Why... WHYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY?!?
It's quite easy to attack grammar when that's all you have going for yourself, what with zero creativity or storytelling talent you must resort to reading children's English textbooks from the 1950s. Well done, you're a champion.
p.s. Grammar is dead, you can argue that, but you're wrong.
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Anonymous2005-08-27 17:34
>>4
what do you mean by 'Grammar is dead'? i don't understand
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Anonymous2005-09-02 4:04
Grammar was never alive, but some people have always been and always will be necrophiles.
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Anonymous2005-10-20 18:10
wow don't freak out
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Anonymous2005-10-20 19:59
Grammar is and should be descriptive, not prescriptive.
This thread, however, is not about grammar, but about spelling.
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Anonymous2005-10-21 21:25
>>8
Grammar is really the slowest changing thing in a language. So it has the most 'right' to be prescriptive.
And if you want to say that grammar should be descriptive, then so should all language constructs because of what I said above.
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Anonymous2005-10-24 14:40
That doesn't follow. If grammar is the slowest changing thing in a language, there really isn't any need for it to be prescriptive – people will be able to follow the changes no matter what.
Spelling, however, can change too quickly and confuse the weak and elderly.
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Anonymous2005-10-26 17:33
>>10
ya. i kinda got confused there. i was thinking about people not following the prescriptions and so confused it with descriptive.
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Anonymous2005-11-09 13:26
I burned the descriptie book of this thread trapping everyone in it for ever. The last linking book back to D'ni on earth was used by me and subsiquently dropped into a fire.