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see post #27 this thread, and see if you're not in error yourself. You know: the post just above your own post #28, which you quote, and misleadingly, in #56.
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Go. Enlighten me. Point out to me which unforgivable and absurd error I have committed. I really, really care.
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Yes, that is exactly what I'll tell you. She blew it, and in the blowing committed an absurdity. Solecisms are the kind of error someone has some grounds to know better than.
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*shakes head* ok. You win. It must be so lonely be the cleverest man on teh interwebz.
For the record, Urbane Guerilla considers himself a better writer than Sundae Girl. Personally I find this absurd and delusional. But hey, what do I know?
[eta] in the wikipaedia article on solecisms it ends with this note:
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Rejecting convention in favor of consensus, modern descriptive linguistics generally dismisses the notion of solecisms, concentrating on how language is used, rather than how it ought to be used.
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Now this doesn't apply in this case because 'thou' is not much in common usage (except for a few places in the north of england, where Thee and Thou have been corrupted into 'tha') but it does point to a general direction within the field of linguistics: a direction which is the opposite of the one you are heading in, UG. Your approach to grammar, as evidenced by your obsessive need to point out mistakes to those with whom you are arguing, is already outmoded. The world is leaving you behind my friend:P