Greg
Alexa Champion wrote:
>
> Jeff,
>
> Suffice it to say that this idea of "linguistic efficiency"--a term which I
> have yet to come across in scholarly work--sounds like a battle on the
> grounds of grammars:
> descriptive vs. pedagogical vs. prescriptive vs. reference vs. theoretical
> vs. traditional vs. spoken/real.
>
> I'll drop the subject because I'm sure that most people on this list
> couldn't care less. :)
> Alexa