language

[jbor]

on 21/3/03 11:54 PM, Paul Mackin at paul.mackin at verizon.net wrote:

> On Fri, 2003-03-21 at 07:21, Otto wrote:
>> "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.
> 
> 
> L'ecriture est deja dans la parole . . .
> 
> J.D.
> 
> :-)
> 

C'est ça!

best