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		<description><![CDATA[Texting encourages us to be creative and unconstrained with our language, right? Traditional print media, fettered as they are by the bounds of Standard English, promote more rigid acceptability and grammaticality judgments, don&#8217;t they? Aren&#8217;t those prescriptivist editors and stodgy old style columnists just concerned with dictating how we speak and write? Not so says [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thediacritics.com&#038;blog=25281244&#038;post=956&#038;subd=thediacritics&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<description><![CDATA[(Posted by Sandeep) If you’ve ever transcribed a free-form conversation, you have probably been struck by how little of a spoken exchange is made up of true grammatical sentences. Listen to your conversations—we hardly ever talk “properly.” We interrupt each other, we lose our train of thought or we misconjugate verbs and get flustered. We’re [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thediacritics.com&#038;blog=25281244&#038;post=644&#038;subd=thediacritics&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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