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Re:ITunes update screws text. Official solution: remove all ... by jrockway on Sunday November 01, 2009 @04:13PM (#915583)
Calling parts of the language you don't happen to use "dead" is dead.

Also, in the real world, the expression "the real world" is a great way to win an argument without saying anything insightful.

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Re:ITunes update screws text. Official solution: remove all ... by adw on Sunday November 01, 2009 @05:32PM (#915683)
This probably isn't the right place to have the descriptivism vs prescriptivism debate, is it? But historically, English has been whatever people who write and speak English say it is. There ain't no Academie Francaise here...
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