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jotham
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by jotham » Sat Jan 06, 2007 3:24 am
Metal56 seems to have got hold of some version of Menand's rule.
Don't blame it on grammarians; it's Metal's rule.
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metal56
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by metal56 » Sat Jan 06, 2007 8:31 am
You're reading too much into that website---making it seem like the offered general guidance or information is a hard-and-fast rule. Maybe that's why lot of linguists think and say that grammarians are always making silly rules.
What a silly statement.