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rhizome
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Google wins crucial API ruling, Oracle's case dec...
You might be interested in David Foster Wallace's "Tense Present," which touches on descriptive vs. prescriptive linguistics, among other things:
http://instruct.westvalley.edu/lafave/DFW_present_tense.html
orthecreedence
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Thanks, this looks like a really interesting read.
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