Re: History of French

From: Nathan Sanders (nsanders.DIE.SPAM_at_wso.williams.edu)
Date: 09/23/04 

Date: Thu, 23 Sep 2004 03:44:32 GMT

In article <clg4l0tcujtg3kj5nuugpisu2eeiqjmf6v@4ax.com>,
 Mxsmanic <mxsmanic@hotmail.com> wrote:

> Just because something is said doesn't make it correct (although I

Do you mean "correct" or "standard", or perhaps, "correct in the
standard language"?

If either of the latter two, then I agree 100%.

> suppose there are some highly liberal and PC linguists who would
> disagree).

What do politics have to do with it? Conservative linguists (and
moderate linguists, and apolitical linguists) would disagree with your
statement just as much as liberal linguists would.

If native speakers of language L say X in L, then X is correct in L.
X is not necessarily correct in a different language (which includes
the standard form of L), of course,.

Nathan 

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Nathan Sanders
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Williamstown, MA 01267

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