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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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
Edgar.Schneider[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]sprachlit.uni-regensburg.de
University of Regensburg, 93040 Regensburg, Germany
phone (int. line)-49-941-9433470
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