Anders, On Wednesday 24 August 2005 09:48, Anders Johansson wrote:
On Wednesday 24 August 2005 05:05, Randall R Schulz wrote:
Thank god you're in total control of the English language.
You're welcome
But I never claimed to be in "total control", I don't think anyone could be. As a matter of fact, I'm not even sure what it means.
I just expressed my dissatisfaction with certain recent trends in modern English usage, and the perhaps vain hope that tools like those requested by the OP could assist in KILLING THEM before I flip a lid
What you said was, in part:
... If children learn it, they'll have to unlearn it. ...
It sounds like you're playing the role of language dictator, to me. The most hopeless cause in the world is to try to control the evolution of language. There's a great deal of everyday English usage that offends me, too, but it's whistling in the wind to inveigh against it. Randall Schulz