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To: OneWingedShark
No problem, It's a free country. If you want to write or speak in dialect, by all means do so. Only -- carry it through, eh?
Those who wish to write and speak as educated, may they not?
No offense intended.

58 posted on 05/31/2013 3:20:51 PM PDT by imardmd1 (An unofficial grammar-Nazi strikes again)
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To: imardmd1
No problem, It's a free country. If you want to write or speak in dialect, by all means do so. Only -- carry it through, eh?
Those who wish to write and speak as educated, may they not?
No offense intended.

None taken; though I have to wonder how not liking 'sneaked', 'pleaded', 'bleeded' in favor of functionally equivalent and equally correct words (snuck, pled, bled). English is a rather screwed-up language when it comes to consistency/regularity*; if you want consistency in a language then Japanese is much better (it only has two irregular verbs, IIRC).

* Noah Webster didn't go far enough in simplifying/standardizing spelling! [;)]

59 posted on 05/31/2013 4:05:16 PM PDT by OneWingedShark (Q: Why am I here? A: To do Justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with my God.)
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