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Thread #132392 Message #2995831
Posted By: theleveller
29-Sep-10 - 03:39 AM
Thread Name: BS: Emma Thompson attacks poor language
Subject: RE: BS: Emma Thompson attacks poor language
"All the nonsense (I repeat myself) from people who know little of language and its development and evolution and try to straightjacket oral or written language."
I'm sure this is nothing new. I'll bet there were protests in the twelfth century when Latin and French texts were translated into English "for lewed men that luitel connen/On Englisch hit is thus bigonnen"...innit?