wordplay: (Yale linguistics inverse)
wordplay ([personal profile] wordplay) wrote2007-04-28 09:37 am

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Marc and I were talking about this this morning and I need more opinions! Tell me about these sentences of English - do they work for you?

[Poll #974955]


Linguists, please maintain radio silence about this for a little bit till the data comes in. Just checking, that's all. :)

[identity profile] sanj.livejournal.com 2007-04-28 04:13 pm (UTC)(link)
Well, I tried to apply prescriptive grammar to these and be tough on them, but the sense came through on most of them, and by that standard, I guess even the "bad" ones are really hinky-but-okay.

Or maybe I just hang out with too many linguists. ;)