Re: USAGE: Naturalness, etc.
| From: | John Cowan <cowan@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, November 5, 1998, 22:34 |
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Bryan Maloney wrote:
> "Why don't you hand me that plate?" my wife asks.
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> "Because I'm too lazy to feel like it." I answer.
Go thou and read _You Just Don't Understand_, by Deborah Tannen
(a sociolinguist), about gender-based language differences.
Fascinating and enlightening.
--
John Cowan http://www.ccil.org/~cowan cowan@ccil.org
You tollerday donsk? N. You tolkatiff scowegian? Nn.
You spigotty anglease? Nnn. You phonio saxo? Nnnn.
Clear all so! 'Tis a Jute.... (Finnegans Wake 16.5)