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       #Post#: 18739--------------------------------------------------
       Linguistic Guidelines by the new Leader of the British House of 
       Commons
       By: Aliph Date: July 27, 2019, 9:13 am
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       Due to my poor English, it will be very difficult for me to
       follow these guidelines. Hopefully, however this ongoing order
       is unacceptable. Anyway this guy Jacob Rees-Mogg’s Esq. is a
       homophobe and a hard brexiter, anti-abortion activist no longer
       fit for purpose. So really I do not care a lot about his
       linguistic guidance and do not understand his concerns.
       I would be pleased to learn what our British and equally the
       other English speakers think about the guy and his rules.
       #Post#: 18741--------------------------------------------------
       Re: Linguistic Guidelines by the new Leader of the British House
        of Commons
       By: NealC Date: July 27, 2019, 9:41 am
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       I think it is funny (and typical) that Parliamentary records
       have 700 instances of himself breaking the rules he wishes to
       implement.
       Some of them make sense, I like the "no comma after the word
       'and'" rule, but most are arbitrary and silly.  I hate arbitrary
       things, there is no rule or pattern behind them so you have to
       memorize each rule individually.
       So unless I am going to write something for Parliament these
       rules are not going to affect me at all.
       There are always attempts to make English ever more elitist and
       difficult than it already is.  The example of the girl
       presenting her thesis in her underwear made me remember
       something from my college days.  (Something more than the sight
       of a college girl in her underwear anyway :-)
       I think it was Michigan State University that had a set of rules
       pertaining to term papers and thesis presentation.  Arbitrary
       rules on the right sized paper, appropriate margins, grammar and
       punctuation rules, you name it.  I had a couple of teachers who
       subscribed to those rules.  I didn't do well in their classes.
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