Doyle Redland has the story:<\/p>\n
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<\/span>\nThis is yet another reminder of how easy it often is, especially in speech, to communicate with a shared lexicon but no shared syntax. <\/p>\nI was disappointed that Mr. Redland didn’t correct the U.S. grammar secretary’s chronology, but I guess that journalistic conventions don’t allow the reporter to contradict a source in his own voice, and time constraints made it impossible to bring in an expert to date Anglo-Saxon correctly. (I’ll pass over in silence the question of what Anglo-Saxon syntax was really like.)<\/p>\n[Tip of the hat to reader SGK]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Doyle Redland has the story: This is yet another reminder of how easy it often is, especially in speech, to communicate with a shared lexicon but no shared syntax. I was disappointed that Mr. Redland didn’t correct the U.S. grammar secretary’s chronology, but I guess that journalistic conventions don’t allow the reporter to contradict a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4144,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-357477","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357477","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4144"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=357477"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357477\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=357477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=357477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=357477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
I was disappointed that Mr. Redland didn’t correct the U.S. grammar secretary’s chronology, but I guess that journalistic conventions don’t allow the reporter to contradict a source in his own voice, and time constraints made it impossible to bring in an expert to date Anglo-Saxon correctly. (I’ll pass over in silence the question of what Anglo-Saxon syntax was really like.)<\/p>\n
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