a joke about two pere ubuists

Dave Monroe davidmmonroe at yahoo.com
Thu Mar 6 08:56:34 CST 2003


Like double negatives.  Way back when, used to
intensify the negatives.  Then it cancelled them out
(the negative of a negative ...).  I blame the
Enlightenment, all that logic 'n' math 'n' stuff ...

--- Abdiel OAbdiel <abdieloabdiel at yahoo.com> wrote:
> 
> In fact, the so-called errors that the perscrptives
> would like to correct often display an elegant logic
> and an acute sensitivity to the texture of language
> that would be lost if perscriptive rules were ever
> sucessfully imposed.

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