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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;kaparthy, post: 3407973, member: 57463&quot;]The first English writer to be recognized with a Nobel Prize for Literature was Rudyard Kipling. Those who held to the King&#039;s English were disappointed. Kipling was born in Bombay and, worse than Indian patois, his works were littered with Americanisms. </p><p><br /></p><p>Believe me, I recoil in horror from the loss of &quot;fewer&quot; to every diminuition being &quot;less than.&quot;&nbsp; I shudder when I hear the prepositional object used as a nominative. For all of that and more, I would agree with your sentiment up to the point where you condemn those younger than yourself merely for the crime of youth. </p><p><br /></p><p>You are not a hep cat, daddio. You are a square. And your jive ain&#039;t jakey. All I can say to you is, &quot;Boz!&quot;&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Languages change. You can look it up in a book if you want, but the fact remains that if you are following the manual, then you are not using the current version.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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