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Chan790

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3. I favor the use of more plural abstract nouns.
Mon Dec 31, 2012, 02:42 PM
Dec 2012

I don't think they're useless at all but rather useful and in many contexts more-accurate than the grammatically-correct singular.

Second article I've read in the past day by some whiny stodgy literary old man for whom rules are tantamount over both comprehension and vernacular language. Fuck them all to kingdoms come!

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