Having said that, I would like to state for the wreck herd that I am
knot the first person to use that spelling, nor am I trying to explain
away their usage.
And although I hate prescriptivism, I also dislike improper usage... a
sort of paradox. So while I acgnawledge that language changes, and
that I personally don't think "This is she" is any more grammatical
than "This is her", "This be her yo", "This one her",
"This her what",
or even "In herlike fashion bes this here one", my brain cries every
time somebody says "Me and her went to the store".
If, however, somebody is speaking a different variety of English, an
English pidgin or creole, or they are speaking English non-natively,
it for some reason doesn't sound bad. In fact when talking to people I
tend to adapt and switch relatively quickly to the variety (even if
they're trying to speak the same variety of English, but non-natively)
they're using, which can be quite interesting from a sociolinguistic
point of view (my communications with Singaporeans, for example, tend
to be in a very basilectal form of Singlish, because it "feels right")
Mark
On 28/05/05, Mark Williamson <node.ue(a)gmail.com> wrote:
The rest of the message, ie that I pronounce the
"inform" in
"information" as if it were "infirm", or that I don't pronounce
the
"know" in "acknowledged" the same way I pronounce the
"know" in "know"
(more like "gnaw" - "acgnawledged"), or for that matter the
"know"
in "knowledge" the same as "know" when it's by itself...
Often, a morpheme (whether it's a morpheme any longer or a
sub-morpheme is debatable) is spelt identically but pronounced
differently in different words....... so "reknowned" does not seem at
all illogical to me.
Mark
On 28/05/05, Timwi <timwi(a)gmx.net> wrote:
Mark Williamson wrote:
if you break it down - "re - known - ed" - it makes perfect sense
Well, you see, it doesn't make sense to me because it's not pronounced
like "known".
I'm not as much of a prescriptivist as my previous message might make it
seem. I do accept language evolution and I do accept changes in grammar
and spelling. My previous message was not meant to belittle those who
do not know the contents of dictionaries by heart. I certainly don't.
It's just that I think I have acquired somewhat of a language intuition
and even so, I find it difficult to understand the thought process that
would lead one to think that there should be a k in that word. Once
someone came up with it, I can understand that other people might follow
it, thinking it might be the correct spelling. But the thoughts of that
first person are beyond me.
Timwi
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