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Old 13-Oct-2007, 17:54
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Default Re: Adj or adv?

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Originally Posted by 2006 View Post
(1) is not correct.
Language science tends not to use terms like "incorrect", 2006, substituting terms like non-standard.

What good is the study of any subject if it's simply a matter of people's varying opinions? 'nonstandard' covers the situation perfectly because the rules that govern casual speech are decidedly different than those that describe other registers.
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