| From: | charles <catty@...> |
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| Date: | Saturday, October 17, 1998, 16:39 |
Tommie Powell wrote:> To get this discussion started, I'll propose one such law. We can call > it "Tommie's Law". Here it is: "What is permitted depends on what is > required."Grammar increases until it becomes a burden. (Same for idiomatic usage.) Time increases irregularities (hoary tradition). Similar words form categories (logical or phonological). Language laws all tend to contradict each other.