[BITList] 10 grammar rules you can forget: how to stop worryingandwrite proper | Science | The Guardian

[Malcolm]

Hugh,

 

If you said  "Aye . right" to me, I would think that you had agreed with
what I had just told you.

 

Malcolm.

 

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Subject: Re: [BITList] 10 grammar rules you can forget: how to stop
worryingandwrite proper | Science | The Guardian

 

Mike,

 

We all have at least two modes of speech, and at least two ways of writing -
formal and informal. One problem with relaxing/abandoning rules is that
there must be rules governing the degree to which the relaxation can be
taken, otherwise problems can arise - abandoning is anarchy, so no rules
apply; and it seems to me, reading the article, that the rules for
relaxation are just as complex as those governing "standard" grammar. One
small point - among the double negative stuff I don't see the Scottish
double positive that means an emphatic negative - "Aye, right!"

 

Hugh.

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