language

[Otto]

"And then I'd
Get a cuppa cawfee"
http://www.science.uva.nl/~robbert/zappa/albums/Over-Nite_Sensation/07.html

----- Original Message -----
From: "jbor" <jbor at bigpond.com>
To: <pynchon-l at waste.org>
Sent: Friday, March 21, 2003 1:26 PM
Subject: Re: language
>
> Spelling has absolutely nothing to do with spoken English - nor with
> grammar, prescriptive or otherwise for that matter. If it did, then every
> morning when you order your "kawfee" and "baygl" at "Stawrbox" with your
> "MLA starl berk" and your "Noo Yawk Tarms" under your arm your language
> use is "mangled" and "aberrant" too.
>