 Re: The book reads well.
My thoughts:
1. How many people setting out to learn English have a clue, or even need to have a clue, about what 'medopassive', 'ergative', or any other of the strange linguistic terms invented by academics, means? I've lived quite happily and very productively through two millennia without ever either coming across or needing to use such terms.
2. If the person listening to what you say, or reading what you write, understands what you mean, it can't be wrong. Surely language is about getting your point across to others, not about how much your choice of style conforms to some unknown third party's ideas about 'correctness'.
I once employed someone who was byslexic (pun intended) and his speling was not gud, but he never rote anything that couldn't be understood by anyone....was he wrong? ...or just a normal communicator?
Who are the self-appointed judges who decide whether some particular use of English is acceptable? Why are they so often out of date with reality? |