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[James Silverton]

"Albert Wagner" <albertwagner at cox.net> wrote in message 
news:45C4A60E.2060106 at cox.net...
> Michael T. Richter wrote:
>> On Fri, 2007-02-02 at 18:26 -0600, Albert Wagner wrote:
>>> Language changes are almost always the result of consistent 
>>> misuse by
>>> the illiterate.
>>
>> Incorrect statements about language are almost invariably the 
>> result of
>> people who haven't even bothered reading the most elementary 
>> texts of
>> linguistics.
>>
> Just what is the judgment of one who has read the most 
> elementary texts
> of linguistics?  And what would someone who has read advanced 
> texts of
> linguistics think of that judgment?
>
Didn't someone say that the English language was the result of 
Norman men-at-arms trying to seduce Saxon barmaids? :-)



-- 
Jim Silverton
Potomac, Maryland