Date: Thu, 26 Jan 1995 07:32:41 -0600

From: Natalie Maynor maynor[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]RA.MSSTATE.EDU

Subject: Bounced Mail (Re: Tidbits)



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Date: Thu, 26 Jan 1995 04:48:11 -0500

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Subject: ADS-L: error report from SPRACHLIT.UNI-REGENSBURG.DE



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From: "E.W. Schneider" [AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]comsun.rz.uni-regensburg.de:Edgar.Schneider[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]sprachlit.uni-regensburg.de

Date: Thu, 26 Jan 1995 10:45:20 +0100

Subject: Re: Tidbits



Date: Wed, 25 Jan 1995 23:13:39 -0800

From: THOMAS CLARK tlc[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]NEVADA.EDU

Subject: Re: Tidbits



On Wed, 25 Jan 1995, William H. Smith wrote:



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By the way, Michael, in the ADS Centennial on usage your article uses "they"

with "every student" as antecedent. Is singular "they" now acceptable usage?





Now, there's flame-bait if I ever saw it. "now acceptable usage," Indeed!.

We spend a good deal of time telling our students the difference between

"appropriate usage" and "now acceptable usage."

Cheers,

tlc



Would you mind explaining the difference to me? Frankly, I`m

surprised; I find this inappropriately prescriptivistic. I teach my students that

we linguistis should record / describe / analyse / interpret

whatever linguistic behavior we find, but don`t state authoritatively

what is "appropriate" or "acceptable". Who is entitled to decide?

Edgar





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