[Magdalen] "Formal Speech"

[James Oppenheimer-Crawford]

Absolutely agree. And one need not be studiously grammatical to be
respectful, unless you mean something entirely different from what I
believe you mean.

James W. Oppenheimer-Crawford
*“A life is like a garden. Perfect moments can be had, but not preserved,
except in memory. LLAP**”  -- *Leonard Nimoy

On Fri, Mar 6, 2015 at 11:32 PM, Scott Knitter <scottknitter at gmail.com>
wrote:

> 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.
>
> Sent from my iPad
>
> > On Mar 6, 2015, at 10:16 PM, Christopher Hart <cervus51 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > If this were a Facebook post I would immediately LIKE it.
> >
> > On Fri, Mar 6, 2015 at 10:17 PM, Cantor03--- via Magdalen <
> > magdalen at herberthouse.org> wrote:
> >
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> 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.
> >
> >
> > --
> >
> > Christopher Hart
> >
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