Re: Question about Spanish


Peter T. Daniels wrote:
foggytown wrote:

Peter T. Daniels wrote:
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I wonder if you were a Castillian you would feel the same?

I'll take a wild guess and, to take an example from Englissh [as you
might spell it, given your <Castillian>], the only language of which I
can legitimately make such a judgment, and suppose that you consider the
language of hip-hop to be "degraded."

Eminem's use of it is superb. Immensely expressive.
--
Peter T. Daniels

Ah, I see! What was taken for political correctness is actually a sad
case of pedantry. Well, you have a lot of company of the www - and my
pity if your pedantry extends so far (or descends so low?) as trying to
score points off a typo. You aren't kin to Richard Schultz, are you?


Richard Schulz killfiled me years ago. I don't miss his responses.


Well Richard does have his lucid moments. That was one of them.

In any event, Ped, degradation is in the eye of the beholder. It's a
very subjective thing, and if you want to label the X-times-removed
Spanish as evolved, devolved, mutated, morphed or anything else -
that's your call for yourself.

Maybe you should confine your activities to helping Schultz with his
"misused apostrophe" crusade.

I have no idea what you're talking about; it doesn't come up on r.m.c.

But, to return to the topic, if you have nothing to say but personal
opprobrium, there's no point in trying to educate you about the nature
of human language. As Neeraj suggested, go read a book.


Pedantic AND pompous! In one package, no less. You get personal
opprobrium because pedantry and pomposity offend me - personally. I
wonder if you are as tiresome in person as you seem to be in here. May
the gods never torment me with that knowledge.

FoggyTown

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