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From: hen@bu-cs.UUCP (Bill Henneman)
Newsgroups: net.flame
Subject: Re: Re: Poor English (here too)
Message-ID: <254@bu-cs.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 17-Mar-85 15:03:59 EST
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Posted: Sun Mar 17 15:03:59 1985
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In fact, most people are careless about English usage in most
circumstances.  I don't take the trouble to ensure a note to my milkman
is clothed in faultless grammar, as long as I'm sure the message will be
understood.  And even our revered Founding Fathers were not above
slovenly usage:
	     ... in order to form a more perfect union ...
violates Fowler's sensibilities, but it gets the point across.