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re: Quoting a section of Pygmalion about grammar
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Michael_Portantiere
12:59 am EDT 04/06/21
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Quoting a section of Pygmalion about grammar
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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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He’s actually a phonologist, which is a branch of linguistics
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