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Originally posted by JeffTL
Nor is "mouses," Dante. "Forums" itself is a stretch of what is correct...so surely I can speak in such a manner as to sound more verbal when I feel as if I am in such a persuasion?
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Uncommon words are no excuse for poor and confusing diction. -.- The purpose of language is to communicate, and when a person puts
appearing well spoken ahead of
being well spoken, the language suffers. That's why "access" is a verb and we don't complain about it anymore.
Actually, this throws back to an essay I read about philology a long time ago... can't remember the title, though.
