Re: USAGE: Internetese deviancy - the definite article
| From: | Paul Bennett <paul-bennett@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, July 30, 2004, 1:42 |
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On Thu, 29 Jul 2004 18:23:48 -0700, Garth Wallace <gwalla@...>
wrote:
> Arthaey Angosii wrote:
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>> I have one friend who uses "teh" [tE] quite a bit in his speech. One
>> exchange I remember is telling him about some bad news that day. His
>> sympathetic response was, "Awww, that's teh suxor."
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> Your friend needs to unplug immediately.
Reactionary prescriptivist claptrap ;-)
In all seriousness, many would indeed say that there's no such thing as
"degradation" of language, just "change".
Paul
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