Casey Rousseau writes:
The only other contribution I have time to add at the moment is to point to
two examples of language "growth", while at the same time affirming that I
do not like the use of office as a verb or different as an adverb. (A
different way to office. Think different.)
That seems to be more peculiar to English than other languages,
though. But i expect that mocking English's shortcomings will only
result in people rallying in an attempt to turn them into strengths,
which will in turn make me wish we'd stuck to discussing sexual
perversions.
rone
and what is a greater sexual perversion that discussing what
language is or isn't? why, it's my favorite form of foreplay...
--
{Reagan's} presidency always reminded me of a remark made by a woman to
Heywood Broun following Secretariat's victory in the Triple Crown. After the
trauma of Vietnam and Watergate, she said, Secretariat had "restored her faith
in humanity." I like to think Reagan was the Secretariat of the eighties.
- Garry Trudeau