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Re: USAGE : ALOT: the final word

From:Gary Shannon <fiziwig@...>
Date:Sunday, December 28, 2003, 16:30
--- Andreas Johansson <andjo@...> wrote:
> Tristan's already said most of what I wanted to sat > in reponse to this, but > I'd like to take issue with the notion that > something commonly enough used to > deserve this kind of flak could be a "non-word".
<snip> Well I guess I've been good a properly put in my placve by you and Tristan. I guess there's some ressesive grammar cop gene that rears its ugly head now and then. I really love language and I really get offended when I hear something that rubs me the wrong way. But in the final analysis my being offended is not going to stop the march of change. I'm sure Chaucer would have been offended by the way Shakespeare spoke and I'm sure Shakespeare would be offended by the way we speak, so just because some old fogey (like me) doesn't like a given change doesn't mean it's "bad" or "wrong". I stand corrected, and I appologize for my stubborn streak. I'll just have to grin and bear it until such time as I get used to seing it. I'm not sure I'll start using it alot myself. (Oh My God! That was a struggle to type!) Nope, I just dont' see myself ever using it. When I read it I picture a writer who is definitely under 30 and probably under 25 years old, just as when I see "U R" for "your are" I know the writer is a teenager. Oh well, as Henry Higgins observed, nobody can open their mouth without making someone else despise them. --gary

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