Re: How the Letterman Leno fued hurts Dave.


"DTSmith" <smithd@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> Helen Read wrote:
>>
>> The cognitive scientist Steven Pinker, who has written several books
>> about language, used this exact example in one of his books, and I was
>> pretty much repeating what he said about it.
>>
> In that case, I'd have to disagree with Steven Pinker as well. Just
> because a lot of people use bad grammar doesn't mean that bad grammar
> should become correct.Whenever I hear bad grammar, alams go off in my
> head and I cease listening to what the person is actually saying and
> focus instead on their verbal inadequacies. It's a curse, but I can't
> help it.
>



Precisely! There are scientists who believe race doesn't exist, homosexuals
are born that way, etc. Just because another quack demonstrates that half
the population uses improper grammar, that doesn't qualify it as being
acceptable.


I. M.



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