Re: Word usage in English dialects // was Slang, curses and vulgarities

Quoting "Thomas R. Wier" <trwier@...>:

> Paul Bennett wrote:
> > Maybe I'm an oddball (it has been suggested in the past), but I'm British,
> > and I use "shall" all the time (in any register above Low), along with a
> > bunch of other prescriptivist claptrap. I'm entirely unsure as to which
> > facet of my past caused this, as I certainly didn't go to schools that
> > valued prescriptivism, though I seem to have been doing it from quite an
> > early age. Maybe I'm just a natural-born stickler. I do know that I have
> > had more compliments than complaints, at least in regard to my formal and
> > semi-formal writing.
>
> No, Tristan and Andreas are rather exaggerating the death of "shall".
Excuse me? When have I exaggerated the death of 'shall'?

                                                Andreas