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Re: which/that - an exception to the majority opinion
Subject:Re: which/that - an exception to the majority opinion From:"Virginia L. Krenn" <asdxvlk -at- OKWAY -dot- OKSTATE -dot- EDU> Date:Tue, 20 Dec 1994 08:17:11 -0600
I think that the paragraph below is not exactly what most of us said.
Actually some of us seemed to agree that incorrect usage "sounds queer
and funny to the ear; a little bit jumbled and jivey" as the old
Mairsy Doats tune put it.
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Author: "Segal, Betty S." <bss3 -at- phpmts1 -dot- em -dot- cdc -dot- gov> at SMTP
Almost everyone seemed to agree that, even if most readers wouldn't notice
if we broke the rule, we should enforce it either because people who knew it
would be recognize that we were good writers if we made this distinction or
because we can teach people to keep the rule if we model correct usage.
