Re: "To whom"

Chris Bates <chris.maths_student@...> wrote:
> Calling it colloquial is a dismissal, dismissing it from"proper"/"formal"/"standard" English!
But those aren't synonyms. ><

"Proper" English would be opposed to "ungrammatical" English
(English that an English speaker would have trouble understanding,
such as a sentence produced by a foreigner where the subject switches
[grammatical] gender mid-sentence) or alternately "inappropriate"
English (using an improper register for the situation).

"Formal" English is opposed to "colloquial" English, but this
scale is not a value judgment, but just a statement about what
situations in which it is used.

"Standard" English is the "prescriptive" English, and I'd mainly
oppose it either to dialectal or regional English, or to relaxed
colloquial speech.

	*Muke!
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