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Re: Dangling
kelvin said:
> to me and my wife." I think it's actually a form of
> pretension. I guess I'm surrounded on a daily basis
> by people who are under pressure to sound educated
> but
> don't make the effort to be so.
>
> Or maybe I'm a snob...
no...you're right. it may not be as pretentious for
all, but it's called "hypercorrection" in linguistics.
-j. marie
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