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Bettering the Bard? #1 (permalink) Thu Apr 03, 2008 7:18 am   Bettering the Bard?		  
Have you read this book?
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Shakespeare's Non-standard English: A Dictionary of His Informal Language By N. F. Blake

Published 2006
Continuum International
Publishing Group

If it was good enough for the Bard, then why not for the rest of us?

Why, on many language fora/forums is there such a "fuss" about both informal-English and non-standard English and why are we advised to avoid it as much as possible? Also, why do so many native-speaking forumites attempt to conflate "informal" with "incorrect"?
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Bettering the Bard? #2 (permalink) Thu Apr 03, 2008 8:16 am   Bettering the Bard?		  
Hi Molly,

An interesting point. Can you give instances of this:
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why do so many native-speaking forumites attempt to conflate "informal" with "incorrect"?

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Bettering the Bard? #3 (permalink) Thu Apr 03, 2008 9:02 am   Bettering the Bard?		  
Well I'm not so geekish as to save/collect such instances, Alan, but you doubt it happens?
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Bettering the Bard? #4 (permalink) Thu Apr 03, 2008 9:17 am   Bettering the Bard?		  
Hi,

No doubt expressed and I take your point about being geekish but I just wanted a sort of general comment.

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Bettering the Bard? #5 (permalink) Thu Apr 03, 2008 10:37 am   Bettering the Bard?		  
But it clearly influences language geeks with apparent problems of idiom conflation Shocked
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Bettering the Bard? #6 (permalink) Thu Apr 03, 2008 11:08 am   Bettering the Bard?		  
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But it clearly influences language geeks with apparent problems of idiom conflation Shocked


¿Que? Confused
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Bettering the Bard? #7 (permalink) Thu Apr 03, 2008 14:19 pm   Bettering the Bard?		  
Shall I compare thee to a Summer's Eve? Though art wonderfully cooling and cleansing.

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Bettering the Bard? #8 (permalink) Thu Apr 03, 2008 14:43 pm   Bettering the Bard?		  
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Shall I compare thee to a Summer's Eve? Though art wonderfully cooling and cleansing.

hehe


Guinness? Laughing
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Bettering the Bard? #9 (permalink) Thu Apr 03, 2008 15:03 pm   Bettering the Bard?		  
hehe

...the feminine cleansing product. (in case anyone didn't get that)
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Bettering the Bard? #10 (permalink) Thu Apr 03, 2008 15:30 pm   Bettering the Bard?		  
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...the feminine cleansing product. (in case anyone didn't get that)


Does a "feminine cleansing product" cleanse one of all femininity, or is it just for getting rid of the women in your life?
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Bettering the Bard? #11 (permalink) Thu Apr 03, 2008 16:28 pm   Bettering the Bard?		  
lol

if the woman in my life saw my post, she'd probably kick my ass

"That is NOT FUNNY, JERK!"
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Bettering the Bard? #12 (permalink) Thu Apr 03, 2008 16:30 pm   Bettering the Bard?		  
it's like when I went to see American Pie in a theater... two male pals and the sister of one attended it with me.

Of course we were laughing constantly, and in some instances the comedy in the film offended the sister and she'd be like, "Shut up, you guys, that is not funny!"
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Bettering the Bard? #13 (permalink) Thu Apr 03, 2008 16:31 pm   Bettering the Bard?		  
moral of the story:

What's funny to one person might be offensive to another.
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