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Quoting a section of Pygmalion about grammar
Posted by: AlanScott 04:05 am EDT 04/05/21
In reply to: re: But was Higgins a grammarian? - AlanScott 07:11 pm EDT 04/01/21

Liza: I got my feelings same as anyone else.
Higgins [to Pickering, reflectively]: You see the difficulty?
Pickering: Eh? What difficulty?
Higgins: To get her to talk grammar. The mere pronunciation is easy enough.
Liza: I don’t want to talk grammar. I want to talk like a lady.
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re: Quoting a section of Pygmalion about grammar
Posted by: Michael_Portantiere 12:59 am EDT 04/06/21
In reply to: Quoting a section of Pygmalion about grammar - AlanScott 04:05 am EDT 04/05/21

Ah yes. Presumably, Shaw was being pointedly ironic in having Higgins make a huge grammatical error (or would it be classified as an error of usage?) in discussing the importance of teaching Eliza to speak in a grammatically correct fashion.

At least, I HOPE he was being ironic...
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