Matthew Daly ([personal profile] matthewdaly) wrote 2009-08-23 05:37 pm (UTC)

I think their goal is to reduce English to three words. Making "such" seem like an implied (and therefore unnecessary) modifier is one step in their nefarious plan.

Great, now part of my brain is trying to craft a sentence like "There are three words in 'the Queen's English' (if you know what I mean)" that would give a true surface reading in both casually spoken and formally written English that would permit the reference trick, and the rest of my brain is trying to stop.

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