we best learn a language by using that language

[Molly]

[MrPedantic]

By the way, you've incorporated the same mistake into your signature here, at English Page.

MrP

[Molly]

[Yankee]

[MrPedantic]

That's remarkable, Amy :?

And as you say, this M56 character makes exactly the same mistake as Bridget and Molly:

1. "...acquired through a painstaking and largely institutional processes..."

Yet that was in 2007. :?

Now what are the chances of that happening, I wonder?

MrP

[Yankee]

Hi MrP

Do you think "et al" means "M56, Molly and Bridget"? Do you think that might be the reason I can't google that quote as being attributable to Biber? Do you think poor Biber knows anything about this particular quote?
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[MrPedantic]

I certainly think he wouldn't much care for being the tail on the asinus.

By the way, I've noticed a very strange thing about that chap over at Antimoon – Molky, or Brolly, or Midget, or whatever his name is. He seems to post exactly the same posts as a certain member here, but several months in advance.

Would that be a case of predictive texting, I wonder?

MrP

[Yankee]

[Molly]

[Molly]

[Molly]

[Yankee]

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Are you claiming that it was Scott Thornbury and Diana Slade who misquoted Biber et al?
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[Lost_Soul]

[MrPedantic]

[Yankee]

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That repeatedly pasted quote made me wonder whether Danger Dave might eventually embrace the theory that "we best learn a language by repeatedly pasting a misquoted sample of it in various places".

By the way, M, does the fact that you've now edited your original Biber quote mean that you think the version of the Biber quote in Scott Thornbury and Diana Slade's book is probably the correct version?

The version with "a ... processes" results in about 206 Google hits, but Google finds only one result for the Thornbury/Slade version. How can we be sure whether Biber et al ever even wrote any of that quote? :shock:
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