//The written language should, wherever possible, reflect the spoken language.//
This has nothing to do with the fact that writing "try and" is no more convenient than writing "try to", which is all I was saying.
PS Would you tell a doctor or a lawyer or a physicist how to do his job? Then don't try it on a linguist. I am fully aware that there's nothing moral about using a standard language. I also appreciate just how useful having a standard language is and I don't appreciate it when relativism and modernism try to tell me that everything I say is mere opinion.
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Date: 2009-01-12 06:12 am (UTC)This has nothing to do with the fact that writing "try and" is no more convenient than writing "try to", which is all I was saying.
PS Would you tell a doctor or a lawyer or a physicist how to do his job? Then don't try it on a linguist. I am fully aware that there's nothing moral about using a standard language. I also appreciate just how useful having a standard language is and I don't appreciate it when relativism and modernism try to tell me that everything I say is mere opinion.