Re: Back to the Future (was: I'm back, sort of)
| From: | J Y S Czhang <czhang23@...> |
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| Date: | Wednesday, September 24, 2003, 23:53 |
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In a message dated 2003:09:24 12:16:27 PM, joe@WANTAGE.COM writes:
>I think Standard English lags about a century behind spoken English, roughly.
A whole century 0_o? I have seen 50-75 years in most writings/opinions on
this subject (IIRC i.e. John McWhorter's _The Power of Babel: A Natural
History of Language_, David Crystal, etc.).
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