Read it again. Both are acceptable. There's a shift

Read it again. Both are acceptable. There's a shift
by Notra_Dahm (2019-05-08 08:13:08)

In reply to: More like... posted by DavidAddison

in the way that the folks that decide these things interpret language. I used to hang out with a professor who wrote the book on the topic. What is in the article reflects what he told me. Just one excerpt from the article, of several, make it clear . . .

"Your friend is merely repeating what the 18th- and 19th-century prescriptive grammarians of the Lowth school laid down as the rules of grammar: that is, rules that told others to speak and write as they (the prescriptivists) thought they should. We ignore those guys now. They lied."

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Agree to disagree * - DavidAddison 2019-05-08 22:05:09