I need to listen to this every day for the next week to help me stangle my pendantic impulses and remember that the purpose of language is to communicate, not to follow a set of (sometimes assinine) rules. Sometimes the rules help - some of them are essential - but they are not (should not be) a straitjacket.
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Date: 10 Jul 2013 11:26 pm (UTC)I need to listen to this every day for the next week to help me stangle my pendantic impulses and remember that the purpose of language is to communicate, not to follow a set of (sometimes assinine) rules. Sometimes the rules help - some of them are essential - but they are not (should not be) a straitjacket.