[etni] Which Language Rules to Flout. Or Flaunt?

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Date: Sat, 29 Sep 2012 08:10:27 +0200

Which Language Rules to Flout. Or Flaunt?
The New York Times
Sept. 28, 2012

Here’s a chilling thought: What if our English teachers were wrong?
Maybe not about everything, but about a few memorable lessons. So many
millions of writers have needlessly contorted their prose to avoid
ending a sentence with a preposition. So many well-intentioned editors
have fought to change “a historic” to “an historic.” If it turns out
that the guidelines we cling to (“to which we cling”?) are nonsense,
maybe the texters have the right idea when they throw out the old
rules and start fresh.

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[etni] Which Language Rules to Flout. Or Flaunt?

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