Date:    Sun, 29 Mar 1998 09:18:35 -0500
<br>From:    "Dennis R. Preston"  preston[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]PILOT.MSU.EDU 
<br>Subject: Re: Think Different
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<br>Methinks Don doth think rightly.
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<br>dInIs
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<br>   it can be blamed for the widespread loss of
<br>  abverbial inflection that is occurring in English.
<br> 
<br> Au contraire.  The opposite is happening.  Two or three generations ago,
<br> when traditional/historical grammar was taught and studied in English
<br> departments, the adjectival complement was not thought anathema to logical
<br> thinking.  People could even slice their onions thin for their hamburgers.
<br> Now, the people who feel badly about others' grammar insist that one must
<br> slice onions thinly, in a thin manner, if one wants them to come out thin.
<br> Or is it come out thinly?  Yes, I do mean that they feel badly.  "Think
<br> different" has an adjectival complement, not an adverbial qualifier.
<br> "Think differently" has an adverb.
<br> 
<br> DMLance
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<br>Dennis R. Preston
<br>Department of Linguistics and Languages
<br>Michigan State University
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