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Thu Oct 20, 2005 9:04 pm
sdwyzs14, what all that means is that there is no "correct" English when you think too hard about it... the dialogue and even the concept of correctness falls apart pretty quickly. All we have is a dialect of English that some Yale educated jack4ss cooped up in an office somewhere SAYS is correct.
For instance, why don't we use "ain't" in formal writing? I mean, it IS a word! "Ain't" is actually MIDDLE ENGLISH. The Queen of England used to say it all the time as the contraction of the phrase "are not." It doesn't matter why, but the fact is... "ain't" IS a word. We don't use it in "proper" English ONLY because someone decided that we shouldn't. It's just convention, not correction.
So, for that reason, and a LOT of others, you're using English just as well as I am.
Tehn aiagn, tehre are poelpe taht say if you jmblue all the lttres in a wrod epxcet the fsrit and lsat, msot redaers wlil udrnetsnad waht you are tyrnig to say. And if taht's sitll Elignsh, aynhtnig is porablby bteter.