David Brown wrote:
On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 11:56:40AM -0500, Todd Walton wrote:
On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 9:42 AM, Karl Cunningham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
How to disable the password and use the drives?
I don't understand what drives this linguistic oddity, and why it's
so popular.
Which part? That the sentence no verb, or subject for that matter?
I think people don't want to name a subject: "How do I...", or "How
does one...", so they just leave it out. Or they're just lazy.
Personally, I think it's a remnant of ESL. Many times, I've heard
people whose first language is not English speak in just this manner. I
think those around them sometimes *like* the odd way of speaking and
adopt some of it.
For example, this very situation caused me to reconsider using the word
"do" or "does" in asking a question. Instead of saying "How do you do
that?" (with 2 "do"), I think it perfectly acceptable to say "How you do
that?". It may not be standard. It may not be technically correct.
But technically neither is, "Shut up!". The usual response is actually
quite correct, "*YOU* shut up!". The word "you" is implied and
understood in the first, while explicit in the second. For these
reasons, I decided to adopt the practice of omitting from questions the
word "do" (and its variations), which I feel belongs in the department
of redundancy department. If it catches on with enough of the people,
it will eventually be considered standard practice. If not, oh well.
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from confiscation through inflation. There is no safe store of value ...
[Gold] stands as a protector of property rights.
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