It is indeed the fallacy of (potentially) inappropriate authority.
But the fallacy is only in the inadequacy, not the inaccuracy.
More argument is needed to establish the position.
Andrew Fildes
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On 27/05/2011, at 8:34 PM, Bob Whitmire wrote:
> The fallacy of assuming persons of stature have some special authority as to
> the use of language. Understandable, but, well, to put it kindly, WRONG!
> <wink>
>
> --Bob
>
> PS: Don't tell the others, but I rather enjoy hearing English spoken as, say,
> the BBC used to do it. But then I also enjoyed listening to William Buckley
> speak, though I didn't agree with much of what he said. I also once refused
> to miss William Safire's On Language column in the New York Times, as well as
> James j. Kilpatrick's essays on the subject. E.B. White was a pleasure to
> read, and, of course, for many years I had Strunk & White by my typewriter,
> later, keyboard. Hell, I even read a good bit of what Eric Blair wrote, never
> mind that whole 1984 thing. (Thanks, by the way, for that tea essay. I passed
> it along to my cousin, who has a taste for Indian tea.)
>
> Now I just wing it. <g>
>
> --Bob
>
>
> On May 27, 2011, at 6:19 AM, Andrew Fildes wrote:
>
>> None of the above use an abomination like 'gotten'.
>
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