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08-26-2009, 09:28 PM

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Originally Posted by SceptileMaster View Post
Obviously communicating is main object of conversation but I often hear people go through multiple sentences without communicating any ideas at all.
That has absolutely nothing to do with following your prescriptivist rules, though. It's a non sequitur—a valueless statement.

I'd also like to point out, preemptively, that I don't have a prejudice against using "correct" English because of some personal deficiency—I was an editor for an academic journal before I received my doctorate.
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