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Hucky: I failed to identify someone who this characterization could apply to.
5jj: Well, one person did write, " But regrettably it no longer is" and later, "As you put it, "since it can´t be helped, it has to be tolerated." That is precisely what I meant. There are many common usages that cause me to grind my teeth, but there is nothing I or anyone can do about them."Barb's response to this was one I might have made myself.
Hucky: What I do regret, however, is that your main paragraph is based on a false assumption. As far as I can see no one in this thread has puffed up himself as an absolute authority claiming that “his” English (what a strange concept of language!) is the “right” one (as you put it).
5jj: If someone regrets the passing of something, it does not seem unreasonable to assume that they consider what has gone to be better than what remains.
I cannot find the words 'puffed up' or 'absolute authority' in Barb's posts. You seem to be criticising things she did not say.
Hucky:Talking about development, it is just a platitude, a mere commonplace to state that everything is subject to development. What on earth is not? Who denies that?
5jj: I don't quite see your point, because Barb did not write those words.
5jj: Well, one person did write, " But regrettably it no longer is" and later, "As you put it, "since it can´t be helped, it has to be tolerated." That is precisely what I meant. There are many common usages that cause me to grind my teeth, but there is nothing I or anyone can do about them."Barb's response to this was one I might have made myself.
Hucky: What I do regret, however, is that your main paragraph is based on a false assumption. As far as I can see no one in this thread has puffed up himself as an absolute authority claiming that “his” English (what a strange concept of language!) is the “right” one (as you put it).
5jj: If someone regrets the passing of something, it does not seem unreasonable to assume that they consider what has gone to be better than what remains.
I cannot find the words 'puffed up' or 'absolute authority' in Barb's posts. You seem to be criticising things she did not say.
Hucky:Talking about development, it is just a platitude, a mere commonplace to state that everything is subject to development. What on earth is not? Who denies that?
5jj: I don't quite see your point, because Barb did not write those words.