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[Lina]

Cindy wrote: 
> Uh, is there any way we can go about getting that particular rule of 
> grammar changed or something?  I'm not a fan of it, myself.

Most certainly. If enough people were to not use such a construction
consistantly (or were to understand there to be nothing wrong with said
construction), the rule of grammar would change. Of course, it would take
forever for grammar Nazis to accept it, but eventually such a construction
(much like my use of "if... were", sadly) would become a grammatical archaism.
(A random example: While it was once acceptable to use "his" in the gender
neutral sense, apparently now it is considered ungrammatical and archaic to do
such, much to my chagrin.)


L, who rather likes archaisms, but finds grammatical change fascinating

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