RE: Pashto yeh characters

From: CE Whitehead (cewcathar@hotmail.com)
Date: Wed Jul 28 2010 - 15:40:09 CDT

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    > From: murrays@exchange.microsoft.com
    > To: unicode@unicode.org
    > Subject: RE: Pashto yeh characters
    > Date: Wed, 28 Jul 2010 17:20:09 +0000
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    > Andreas Prilop commented "A native speaker of English does not /automatically/ know better about English grammar,
    > English punctuation than an informed Frenchman." So true, so true. Most native speakers of English have only limited
    > understanding of English grammar. At least in my country. They regularly confuse she and her, he and him, adverbs and
    > adjectives, etc. Sigh.
    >
    > Murray
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    People do do strange things with English. Of course as you probably know, the way you view confusions of "he" and "him" depends on whether you believe that grammar should be prescriptive or descriptive or a little of both. And then there is 'cybergrammar':
    http://extra.shu.ac.uk/daol/articles/v1/n1/a3/thurlow2002003.html

     
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    C. E. Whitehead
    cewcathar@hotmail.com
                                                   



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