Re: History of French
From: Herman Rubin (hrubin_at_odds.stat.purdue.edu)
Date: 09/24/04
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Date: 24 Sep 2004 10:57:35 -0500
In article <nsanders.DIE.SPAM-EA7EBE.23442622092004@news.verizon.net>,
Nathan Sanders <nsanders.DIE.SPAM@wso.williams.edu> wrote:
>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,.
Which native speakers? According to this, there would be
dozens of different "English" languages.
This is the "modern" version of social science brought in
by the socialist educationists, that there is nothing
which can be called "right". They extend it to everything
else, which is why education has gone downhill.
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