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Re: if cargo blocks

From David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no>
Newsgroups comp.lang.c, comp.lang.c++
Subject Re: if cargo blocks
Date 2018-12-30 15:23 +0100
Organization A noiseless patient Spider
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On 30/12/2018 06:12, Ralf Goertz wrote:
> Am Sat, 29 Dec 2018 19:04:28 -0700
> schrieb rbowman <bowman@montana.com>:
> 
>> Rather like the grammarian’s damnation of ending a sentence with a
>> preposition it resulted in some of the most convoluted messes I've
>> ever seen.
> 
> Although I have been communicating in English for quite a while now, I
> heard about that damnation only rather recently. Does that mean you are
> not supposed to say "What are you looking for?" but should say "For what
> are you looking?" instead?

Yes, that is correct.

> The former /feels/ correct because I hear it
> very often, I guess more often than the latter. But then I also very
> often hear "What do you got?" in American TV shows which feels like a
> horrible abuse of language…
> 

It is a matter of philosophical debate whether the kind of grammatical 
abuse found on American TV shows is ignorance, laziness, or the 
evolution of language.

"To boldly go where no man has gone before" - is it bad grammar, or has 
it changed the language?

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if cargo blocks "Rick C. Hodgin" <rick.c.hodgin@gmail.com> - 2018-12-29 10:42 -0500
  Re: if cargo blocks David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2018-12-29 17:26 +0100
    Re: if cargo blocks Mr Flibble <flibbleREMOVETHISBIT@i42.co.uk> - 2018-12-29 16:32 +0000
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          Re: if cargo blocks Mr Flibble <flibbleREMOVETHISBIT@i42.co.uk> - 2018-12-30 00:12 +0000
          Re: if cargo blocks rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2018-12-29 19:04 -0700
            Re: if cargo blocks Ralf Goertz <me@myprovider.invalid> - 2018-12-30 06:12 +0100
              Re: if cargo blocks David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2018-12-30 15:23 +0100
                Language (Was: if cargo blocks) gazelle@shell.xmission.com (Kenny McCormack) - 2018-12-30 15:39 +0000
                Re: Language (Was: if cargo blocks) rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2018-12-30 11:23 -0700
                Re: if cargo blocks Ralf Goertz <me@myprovider.invalid> - 2018-12-31 05:21 +0100
                Re: if cargo blocks David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2018-12-31 18:09 +0100
                Re: if cargo blocks rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2018-12-31 12:22 -0700
                Re: if cargo blocks Ralf Goertz <me@myprovider.invalid> - 2019-01-01 12:04 +0100
                Re: if cargo blocks rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2018-12-31 11:50 -0700
                Re: if cargo blocks Ralf Goertz <me@myprovider.invalid> - 2019-01-01 11:43 +0100
                Re: if cargo blocks Ralf Goertz <me@myprovider.invalid> - 2019-01-01 14:27 +0100
                German grammar (Was: if cargo blocks) gazelle@shell.xmission.com (Kenny McCormack) - 2019-01-01 14:17 +0000
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                Re: if cargo blocks fir <profesor.fir@gmail.com> - 2019-01-01 10:38 -0800
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                Re: if cargo blocks Ralf Goertz <me@myprovider.invalid> - 2018-12-31 05:43 +0100
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              Linguistics. Re: if cargo blocks Siri Cruise <chine.bleu@yahoo.com> - 2019-01-01 16:27 -0800
                Re: Linguistics. Re: if cargo blocks rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2019-01-01 22:30 -0700
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      Re: if cargo blocks rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2018-12-29 16:06 -0700
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              Re: if cargo blocks fir <profesor.fir@gmail.com> - 2018-12-29 15:42 -0800
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    Re: if cargo blocks "Rick C. Hodgin" <rick.c.hodgin@gmail.com> - 2018-12-29 16:32 -0500
  Re: if cargo blocks Siri Cruise <chine.bleu@yahoo.com> - 2018-12-30 13:00 -0800
    Re: if cargo blocks "Rick C. Hodgin" <rick.c.hodgin@gmail.com> - 2018-12-30 16:12 -0500
      Re: if cargo blocks Siri Cruise <chine.bleu@yahoo.com> - 2018-12-30 13:31 -0800
        Re: if cargo blocks "Rick C. Hodgin" <rick.c.hodgin@gmail.com> - 2018-12-30 16:45 -0500
          Re: if cargo blocks Bart <bc@freeuk.com> - 2018-12-30 22:17 +0000
            Re: if cargo blocks "Rick C. Hodgin" <rick.c.hodgin@gmail.com> - 2018-12-30 17:22 -0500
              Re: if cargo blocks "Chris M. Thomasson" <invalid_chris_thomasson@invalid.invalid> - 2018-12-30 20:25 -0800
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    Re: if cargo blocks "Rick C. Hodgin" <rick.c.hodgin@gmail.com> - 2019-01-02 15:54 -0500
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          Re: if cargo blocks "Rick C. Hodgin" <rick.c.hodgin@gmail.com> - 2019-01-03 08:17 -0500
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              Re: if cargo blocks "Rick C. Hodgin" <rick.c.hodgin@gmail.com> - 2019-01-03 09:15 -0500
            You are so full of shit (Was: if cargo blocks) gazelle@shell.xmission.com (Kenny McCormack) - 2019-01-03 13:42 +0000
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        Re: if cargo blocks Ian Collins <ian-news@hotmail.com> - 2019-01-04 11:11 +1300
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          Re: if cargo blocks "Rick C. Hodgin" <rick.c.hodgin@gmail.com> - 2019-01-03 17:48 -0500
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        Re: if cargo blocks "Rick C. Hodgin" <rick.c.hodgin@gmail.com> - 2019-01-03 08:19 -0500
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          Re: if cargo blocks "Chris M. Thomasson" <invalid_chris_thomasson@invalid.invalid> - 2019-01-03 13:22 -0800
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