03-08-2005, 02:00 PM
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News came out of the blue
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WTF grammar
We need a new term. Prescriptive grammar says "thou shalt not say (things that meet conditions) XYZ". Descriptive grammar says "love the vernacular, and say what you like". But what do we call it when you're taken grammatically aback by...
http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/langu...es/001963.html
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