[Magdalen] "Formal Speech"

[Scott Knitter]

I'd just be happy if everyone would agree to a more respectful tone of language in public. All of that seems to have gone the way of dressing up to go downtown. 

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> On Mar 6, 2015, at 10:16 PM, Christopher Hart <cervus51 at gmail.com> wrote:
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> If this were a Facebook post I would immediately LIKE it.
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> On Fri, Mar 6, 2015 at 10:17 PM, Cantor03--- via Magdalen <
> magdalen at herberthouse.org> wrote:
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>> I read some information recently that excused all the grammatical
>> sloppiness
>> in the USA as being "informal" speech, and what is traditionally  correct
>> is casually dismissed as "formal speech."
>> 
>> So that's what it's all about!
>> 
>> The use of adjectives as adverbs, the routine ending of sentences  with
>> prepositions, the splitting of infinitives, and the total abandonment  of
>> "whom", etc., etc., are just all "formal" and the grammatical  sloppiness
>> is really where the action is and named "informal" speech.
>> 
>> I don't buy it for a minute.  This is propagated by English class
>> dropouts,
>> who are getting even for the heavy-handed use of the red pencils on
>> their essays.
>> 
>> If they can't get it right, anything goes.
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> David Strang.
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