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At 12:21 PM 6/19/2006, Karl Hagen wrote: . . .
>Its use is, of course, still casual, but if you do try to correct your
>children, you should realize that you may well not be successful, as
>children are often quite resistant to language correction. They'll have
>to learn to avoid it in formal writing at some point, but trying to
>stamp it out of their speech isn't the best way to accomplish that.
DD: Odd, with my get we just said, "We don't do that." It stomped the
pattern out, at least in front of adults. {"Tenants talk like
that. Trash." works as well. {Cue in and up; "There ain't no lower
class than Tennessee trash. Messing up the highways."} Best is the
Parental unit and associates don't do it either.
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