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1 CuriousLurker  Fri, Jan 24, 2014 11:26:39am

Good stuff, thanks.

BTW, your link to the source is broken—it appears that the quotation marks didn’t get converted, causing the “that” part of the URL to get chopped off.

Maybe it’s a browser thing? FF automatically encoded the URL, but it seems that whatever you used didn’t.

2 Charles Johnson  Fri, Jan 24, 2014 11:37:40am

Fixed - the URL actually has curly quotes in it, and they were converted to straight quotes.

I hate it when sites allow curly quotes in URLs. It’s always a cause of problems.

3 Eclectic Cyborg  Fri, Jan 24, 2014 11:59:04am

This was one of my journalism professors biggest beefs. He very much felt the word “that” was one of the most easily expendable when it came to editing copy.

4 First As Tragedy, Then As Farce  Fri, Jan 24, 2014 2:08:32pm

Notice THAT linguistic usage evolution follows exactly the same natural selection rules THAT biological evolution follows: if it survives, it propagates and spreads. Otherwise, it goes extinct.

English speakers 100 years from now will consider the language we speak today just as quaint and slightly archaic as we consider the language of the people of the early 20th century.

You don’t have to embrace the changes that inevitably creep into your native language, but you’re a fool if you think you can or should rally against them.

5 Amory Blaine  Sat, Jan 25, 2014 5:13:46am

That’s that!


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