re a recent thread

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on 3/31/03 3:42 PM, S.R. Prozak at prozak at post.com wrote:

> 
> A more mature outlook is that real diversity is only empowered by letting each
> group have their own way, within their own group.
> 
> Time to break up America ;)

What a boring world that would be.


> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: pynchonoid <pynchonoid at yahoo.com>
> Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2003 07:07:37 -0800 (PST)
> To: Pynchon-L <pynchon-l at waste.org>
> Subject: re a recent thread
> 
>> http://www.nationalpost.com/commentary/story.html?id={11764CDF-7EAC-46C8-AFB5
>> -372D5A511475}
>> 
>> " [...] Language bullying -- or prescriptivism, as
>> it's more politely called -- is conservative in the
>> worst sense. It advances a stuffy and old-fashioned
>> view of language, the rules of which it considers set
>> by supposed experts, such as the authors of grammar
>> books, rather than common usage. It is deeply
>> anti-populist and snobby, not to mention just plain
>> wrong and cranky. There are good reasons to criticize
>> Bush. But holding his -- or anyone else's -- grammar
>> to dubious standards isn't one of them. [...] Language
>> bullies have a bloody-minded and literal understanding
>> of how speech works. [...] But worst of all is the
>> constant abuse that is hurled at the non-standard
>> English of blacks and other groups, as when an old
>> Mississippi Delta blues singer howls, "I can't get no
>> lovin'." That's a double negative, bullies say, so
>> it's wrong. [...] "
>> 
>> 
>> ....Now, no need for anybody to go nucular about this,
>> or, heaven forbid that other favorite Bush pastime,
>> ballistic...
>> 
>> 
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