To: Constitutionalist Conservative
Ain't that the truth.
8 posted on
06/20/2012 6:37:40 AM PDT by
lysie
To: lysie
14 posted on
06/20/2012 6:45:09 AM PDT by
cripplecreek
(What does it profit a man if he gains the whole world but loses his soul?)
To: lysie
Ah! Enallage! The rhetorical device in which deliberate grammatical mistakes are made for emphasis. One of the saddest things about grammatical illiteracy is that it robs those afflicted of the ability to effectively deploy enallage.
56 posted on
06/20/2012 7:17:58 AM PDT by
The_Reader_David
(And when they behead your own people in the wars which are to come, then you will know. . .)
To: lysie
Actually, ain’t has been a legitimate part of the english language for about 500 years. It just isn’t (ain’t?) erudite usage.
119 posted on
06/20/2012 8:26:21 AM PDT by
editor-surveyor
(Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they were.)
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