Thanks for the article, Herb! I've been away from email for an extended
period. This was a nice piece to read upon returning! I love the
paraphrase, John! How accurate!

John

On Thu, Aug 9, 2012 at 8:13 AM, John Crow <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> Thanks, Herb--always happy to see prescriptive grammarians take a lick.
> Somebody once wrote (and I paraphrase) that English teachers were the
> morticians of the language and that, once a certain feature or "rule" died
> out, they were the only ones at the funeral.
>
> John
>
>
> On Wed, Aug 8, 2012 at 4:53 PM, Stahlke, Herbert <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
>> The Subject line is not original.  It comes from an interesting article
>> in the Wall Street Journal
>>
>>
>> http://www.livemint.com/2012/07/30210221/English-and-the-language-polic.html
>>
>> about the recent demise of the Queen's English Society.
>>
>> Herb
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