[lbo-talk] My Space vs. Facebook, race and class distinctions

[Michael McIntyre]

I noticed this at SOAS in 1993-94 and briefly attributed it to my
declining students.  Then I noticed the same mistakes being made in
New Statesman.  So, I thought, maybe the decline of this particular
set of lexicographic markings isn't so important.  After all, no such
markings exist in the spoken language.  Still, it grates every time I
have to read a paper that fails to make the distinction propertly.

MM

On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 10:12 PM, Joanna<123hop at comcast.net> wrote:
> When I was teaching at SUNY Plattsburg, 1987-1989, all my students confused
> plurals with possessives.
>
> Five years earlier, when was teaching at UC Berkeley and Univ. of Santa
> Clara, no one was making this mistake.
>
> Granted, the students at UCB were higher caliber; but the ones at U of S C,
> were comparable to the SUNY students.
>
> Joanna
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