lesviolettes wrote:I do not think it is very nice to assert that "most people, a good example is S., know virtually nothing of how language works", JTT.
As it is, I'd much rather not know how it works and use it, as you said, effectively. Maybe I could show some inventiveness, then...
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You'd have to know the history to understand this comment I made, LV. I have the greatest respect for S's :wink: ability to use the language. He uses it in an exceptional fashion. By his own admission, he knows little to nothing of the workings of the language.
This fact further substantiates my point; [not only mine but the view held by language science] that language is a highly complex phenomenon and the rules that drive it are not the simplistic guidelines you see and read in style guides and old grammar books.
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