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       Notes on an overheard conversation between a prescriptivist and a
                                 descriptivist
                                        
“I'm going to the grocery story, so if you wake up from your nap and I'm not
here, that's where I will be at.” 

“No. Don't say that.” 

“You don't want me to go to the store?” 

“No, don't end your sentances with a preposition.” 

“Really? How should I have said that?” 

“‘That's where I will be.’ You don't need the ‘at.’” 

And the next thing you'll tell me is to stop splitting my infinitives.” 

“Pththththththththt.” 


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