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Bucky Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-16-10 04:32 PM
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126. Thank you. Grammar rules should describe, rather than prescribe, how people speak.
Speaking well, communicating clearly, and expressing yourself efficiently are important mental disciplines, but they are not a valid reasons to oppose the evolution of a living language. Too many people get the idea that that more rules there are the more proper the language is. That's just silly, and never you mind that I just wrote "more proper."
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