[quote=Naamplao;236575]You know....I have never heard of such a thing as a "override reflexive pronoun". So I googled it and
found a grand total of ZERO...not ONE reference to this term!!!
I googled "override reflexives" and found a
grand total of SIX references all of which are associated with [color=Black]CGEL
I added a hyphen between "over" and "ride" and got
Zero results for both.
And what are we to determine from this, Naamplao? Quote:
Originally Posted by Naamplao  This bible thumping zealotry of CGEL as the only way to speak/teach English is getting to be annoying. As shown by those searches, this method of English teaching has hardly mainstream and has not displaced traditional methods of teaching English. |
I'm afraid that I must let you know that the bible-thumping comes from those who can offer no more than their opinion or more often than not, the opinions garnered from some style manual.
The only other thing offered by prescriptivists is a stern warning that you will offend some purists somewhere, sometime. Hardly what one would consider a scientific approach. Quote:
Originally Posted by Naamplao Perhaps it will gain acceptance but so far it has not. |
Dollars to donuts, you have never even looked between the covers, Naamplao. Have you?
No one, that's NO ONE has addressed any of the questions I raised. How do you know that the prescriptive admonitions accurately reflect how language is used? Quote:
January 26, 2005
"Everything is correct" versus "nothing is relevant"
Geoffrey Pullum
What's so interesting is that it is quite clear Zink cannot see any possibility of a position other than two extremes: on the left, that all honest efforts at uttering sentences are ipso facto correct; and on the right, that rules of grammar have an authority that derives from something independent of what any users of the language actually do.
But there had better be a third position, because these two extreme ones are both utterly insane.
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