Eduard

----- Original Message -----
From: Patricia Lafayllve <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Tuesday, August 31, 2010 15:53
Subject: Re: Traffic Surge
To: [log in to unmask]

> It may be time to bring this article to the list:
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> http://www.alpharubicon.com/trolls.htm
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> It is off the topic of grammar, but timely to the thread below.
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> -patty
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> From: Assembly for the Teaching of English Grammar
> [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Carole Hurlbut
> Sent: Saturday, August 28, 2010 12:35 AM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: Traffic Surge
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> Brad,
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> Your last response has no place on a listserv. The insults are a poor
> reflection on our profession.
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>
> Carole
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> ----- Original Message -----
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> From: Brad Johnston <mailto:[log in to unmask]>
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> To: [log in to unmask]
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> Sent: Friday, August 27, 2010 9:34 PM
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> Subject: Re: Traffic Surge
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> John,
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> I'm sorry your wife left you for another man, or was it a woman?
> I've heard
> it both ways. But your anger is misdirected at me. I really had
> nothing to
> do with it. I don't even know him, or her, as the case may be.
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>
>
>
> _____
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> From: John Eleen <[log in to unmask]>
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Sent: Fri, August 27, 2010 4:55:40 PM
> Subject: Re: Traffic Surge
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> Brad,
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> You missed the point entirely, as expected, and like always, you lack
> justification in your arguments.
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> On Fri, Aug 27, 2010 at 11:31 AM, Brad Johnston
> <[log in to unmask]>wrote:
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> It is said the average American doesn't understand sentences
> with more than
> 13 words. (oops, that's 14). Was a sentence with 11 words too
> much for you,
> John?
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> There are three more words after "An option would be to keep the
> linguists".Look at it again. Maybe you can grasp "but ban
> linguistics". Those three
> little words finished the thought.
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>
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> Try it again. You can do it.
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>
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> Sorry, John. I'll try to write shorter, simpler sentences in the
> future. We
> want everyone, even the slow, to be able to stick with us. (13 words)
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>
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> (You're trying too hard to be ugly, John. Give it up. Let it go.
> Everyonehas a 'delete' option. They don't need your help.)
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> _____
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> From: John Eleen <[log in to unmask]>
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Sent: Fri, August 27, 2010 1:35:45 PM
> Subject: Re: Traffic Surge
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> You seem not to have an interest in grammar either, judging by your
> impeccable reasoning skills.
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> A                  B
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> Linguists -> may crowd grammar out
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> Your option:
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>                  A
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> Keep the linguists.
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> Brad, this is why no one here takes you seriously. They give you
> the rope
> and you do the rest.
>
> On Fri, Aug 27, 2010 at 5:08 AM, Brad Johnston
> <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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> Have you noticed the surge in grammar traffic since someone
> suggested the
> linguists may be crowding grammar out?
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>
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> An option would be to keep the linguists but ban linguistics.
> Linguists have
> an interest in grammar, even if vice is not versa.
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