a joke about two pere ubuists

Malignd malignd at yahoo.com
Thu Mar 6 12:01:31 CST 2003


<<In my post I distinguished "grammatical" from
grammatical. What you are suggesting is that the
violation of prescriptive rules (how one ought to
write or talk) produces grammatical nonsense. But this
claim is simply not true. Logic is irrelevant here so
I don't know why you're bringing logic into it.>>

I'll respond to this more fully when I have more time.

Suffice it to say that I'm clearly on the other side
of the prescriptive/descriptive debate from you.

I'll bone up (I'll see if you need boning up) on the
going terminology, but failing to differentiate
terminologically between a flaunting of grammatical
rules and a statement whose content is illogical save
as a metaphor, isn't bringing much clarity to the
issue. 


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