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[Albert Wagner]

James Silverton wrote:
> "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? :-)

LOL.  Thank you, James.  I hadn't heard that one.