ling 1 vs a&o3

[Fisico]

<p>I thought A&O3 was closed. Anyway, A&O 3 is easier than Ling 1.</p>

<p>Ling 1 has weekly homework:</p>

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@Ling1 HW Q

In his New York Times column, “On Language”, William Safire quotes President Bush as saying, “Our diplomats and/or soldiers could be drug into this court.” Safire then says, “Now to the president’s drug abuse. He is in error: the past participle of the verb drag is dragged and not drug. Bush is not the first president I have taken to task on the use of the dialect form of the verb. In 1999, Bill Clinton said of the reaction of Republicans to his subsidy to local forces, “They practically swole up and died when it was passed.” The standard English past tense of the verb swell is swelled, not swole.”</p>

<p>President Clinton and Bush are native speakers of English. We have claimed that native speakers of a language do not speak (or, presumably, write) ungrammatically. In what sense, then, can Safire criticize the way they use the English language?

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<p>***?!</p>

<p>In conclusion, A&O 3 is easier than Ling 1.</p>