[OT] Language, was once Re: [LST]
From: Laserlight <laserlight@c...>
Date: Fri, 29 Jan 1999 00:08:45 -0500
Subject: [OT] Language, was once Re: [LST]
>> It is now Officially OK to end a sentence with a preposition. I
don't
>> recall who decreed this, but it was handed down somewhere in the last
couple
>> of months. Call it English v 3.1, I guess.
>If it came out of an Oakland, California, U.S.A. educator, it cannot
>even be called American, let alone 'English', unless pigeon-english
>is the norm.
>
>Bye for now,
>John L.
That was Eubonics, which translates into English as "an attempt to grab
more
funding."
And this is really of topic.