> Misuse, schmisuse.  If someone uses "he ain't got none," do you let it
> go--assuming that this is in a college course on grammar??? christine gray
 
 
I thought we were talking about children in elementary schools: how
to teach them standard English (oral & written) without making them
feel that their home language is inferior, wrong, or incorrect.  Not
an easy task by all means.
 
Students in college are a different matter.
 
 
Mieke Koppen Tucker
Bishop's University
Lennoxville, Quebec, Canada