Re: Survival langauge

Tony Cooper wrote:

> Evan Kirshenbaum wrote:
> >Tony Cooper wrote:

> >Looking at published lyrics on Amazon, I see thirteen books that have
> >some variation of "ride an old Paint" and "lead an old Dan", seven
> >that have some variation of "ridin' Old Paint" and "leadin' Old Dan",
> >and one that's "ride an old paint" and "leading old Dan".

> Note how - sound-wise - "leadin' old Dan" could be heard as "leadin'
> an Old Dan". Slur the "in'" part, and you have an extra "an" sound.


You are again flaunting ignorance of language.

Causerie rarely follows grammar rules, deliberately so, artistically so.

Language Lawyers make piss poor writers.


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