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From:Nik Taylor <fortytwo@...>
Date:Wednesday, October 11, 2000, 23:30
Yoon Ha Lee wrote:
> (pedants like me who use "whom," things like "whose," etc. remain)
Since when has "whose" been pedantic?
> If you don't like cases, sure!
I personally find cases indispensable. :-) I think I've had a grand total of *one* conlang without cases.
> And yet native > English speakers may make any number of "mistakes" (depending on how > prescriptive your grammar is) but they rarely make the kinds of > article-use errors that these foreign speakers do.
Probably because prescriptivists have never bothered to make rules about articles. I'm sure that if they had, we'd be making lots of "errors". :-)