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[Malignd]

<<Malign is just peddling more of the insulting,
demeaning views of African-American culture that
he/she has written here in the past. >>

Please cite.

<If writers like Hurston, Ellison, etc. had followed
the kinds of prescriptions and proscriptions offered
by the likes of Malign, they wouldn't have produced
works that demonstrate the beauty and power of their
so-called "non-standard English", instead they would
have listened to unimaginative grammar teachers and
wrung the idiosyncratic magic out of their prose.>>

This is childishly stupid and utterly off the point.  

<<Pynchon's works would be quite different, too, were
he to comply with Malign's strictures and limit
himself to "standard" English, whatever that might
be.>>

Pynchon's novels give copious evidence of his
familiarity with, and mastery of, accepted rules of grammar.

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