Re: I beg to differ than that...

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Scottie wrote:
>     Hear hear, Paul.
> 
>     You have only to ask them what preposition does 
>     the verb 'to differ' take - then watch them squirm 
>     as they explain how illogical English is anyway, how 
>     free they all are from an elitist desire for consistency 
>     etc., etc., etc.

I should clarify my earlier points about language and rules - in that I too
agree that language is an ever-changing beast. There's nothing more
annoying and illogical than those pedagogues who whinge their little
intellects off worrying about the loss of the word `gay' from the English
language. It just proves how little they know about the true nature of
language. And it's not a new phenomenon, have a look at the character of
Holofernes in Shakespeare's `Love's Labour's Lost', complaining about
people saying `calf' and not `carf' , 400 years ago! What I object to is
enforcing the idea of freeness onto minds before they have understood the
idea of discipline. To me, that's just as phony as setting rules; in fact
it's really just substitution of a new set.

Camille
verona_beach@geocities.com


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