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Nabubrush

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Textbook Lavender. 3/23
« Reply #15 on: March 25, 2004, 02:51:26 am »
Enough with the prescriptive grammar, pedants.
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Textbook Lavender. 3/23
« Reply #16 on: March 25, 2004, 05:03:55 pm »
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Enough with the prescriptive grammar, pedants.


Proscriptive grammar all the way!

That is why we are not apes.
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« Reply #17 on: March 25, 2004, 05:23:57 pm »
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Enough with the prescriptive grammar, pedants.


Proscriptive grammar all the way!

That is why we are not apes.


I thought it had more to do with our mastery of computer porn. Well, and fire. But mainly porn.
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« Reply #18 on: March 25, 2004, 06:00:59 pm »
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Enough with the prescriptive grammar, pedants.


Proscriptive grammar all the way!

That is why we are not apes.


I thought it had more to do with our mastery of computer porn. Well, and fire. But mainly porn.


It is attitudes like that which are the reason my flaming porn has so many grammar errors in it.
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Textbook Lavender. 3/23
« Reply #19 on: March 26, 2004, 07:54:52 am »
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By the way, I am drunk.


ME TOO


see all my posts tongith

drunk Chris = happy chris

YAYA

hove some dignity
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Textbook Lavender. 3/23
« Reply #20 on: March 26, 2004, 12:12:22 pm »
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hove some dignity




Indeed.
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Textbook Lavender. 3/23
« Reply #21 on: March 26, 2004, 04:26:57 pm »
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Indeed.


Well, at least someone thought of something to say!
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« Reply #22 on: March 27, 2004, 07:23:51 pm »
Late again, but hey:

As I understand it, "an (history/historical/historian)" actually is correct in American English, although I believe it's a little jargony. It tends to be a usage confined to historians and academics -- or so says my father, who is a(n) historian and presumably knows.
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« Reply #23 on: March 27, 2004, 08:49:21 pm »
In general pronunciation rules which why you say "an mp3" even though it starts with a consonant. So for "an historic" to be correct you have to drop the h when you say it out loud which most americans don't do so it just ends up sounding funny.

It started bugging me when all the newscasters started consistently saying it (even Jon Stewart~!) apparently because it sounds vaguely british and therefore more sophisticated.
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