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Post by avordvet on May 6, 2011 12:22:32 GMT -5
The Unabridged Second Amendmentby J. Neil Schulman If you wanted to know all about the Big Bang, you'd ring up Carl Sagan, right? And if you wanted to know about desert warfare, the man to call would be Norman Schwarzkopf, no question about it. But who would you call if you wanted the top expert on American usage, to tell you the meaning of the Second Amendment to the United States Constitution? That was the question I asked A.C. Brocki, editorial coordinator of the Los Angeles Unified School District and formerly senior editor at Houghton Mifflin Publishers — who himself had been recommended to me as the foremost expert on English usage in the Los Angeles school system. Mr. Brocki told me to get in touch with Roy Copperud, a retired professor of journalism at the University of Southern California and the author of American Usage and Style: The Consensus. Read More: www.constitution.org/2ll/schol/2amd_grammar.htm
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Post by aronatbc on May 6, 2011 13:58:05 GMT -5
An oldie but one I still use when arguing with folks on the fence about gun control.
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Post by themandylion on May 6, 2011 23:31:40 GMT -5
"Shall not be infringed" is plain and clear to even a moderately literate English speaker.
It takes a devilish form of sophistry to make it mean something else.
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