12-22-2004, 08:05 AM
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A threat to the English language
Advice about English usage -- don't use X; use Y instead -- is often couched in terms of the threat to the language presented by X. The threatening Xs are usually innovative, non-standard, or informal in style, so slang (which...
http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/langu...es/001740.html
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