The fallacy of assuming persons of stature have some special authority as to
the use of language. Understandable, but, well, to put it kindly, WRONG! <wink>
--Bob
PS: Don't tell the others, but I rather enjoy hearing English spoken as, say,
the BBC used to do it. But then I also enjoyed listening to William Buckley
speak, though I didn't agree with much of what he said. I also once refused to
miss William Safire's On Language column in the New York Times, as well as
James j. Kilpatrick's essays on the subject. E.B. White was a pleasure to read,
and, of course, for many years I had Strunk & White by my typewriter, later,
keyboard. Hell, I even read a good bit of what Eric Blair wrote, never mind
that whole 1984 thing. (Thanks, by the way, for that tea essay. I passed it
along to my cousin, who has a taste for Indian tea.)
Now I just wing it. <g>
--Bob
On May 27, 2011, at 6:19 AM, Andrew Fildes wrote:
> None of the above use an abomination like 'gotten'.
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