Re: corrupt vulgate

   Date: 	Tue, 4 Jan 1994 17:30:22 -0700
   From: "Sterling G. Bjorndahl" <bjorndahl@augustana.ab.ca>
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   here.  Academics expect other academics to hold to certain standards of
   reliability.  Those who don't hold to them get shot down.  

error.  There are many uses; the current CCAT distribution channel
leaves out many non-academic uses.

One other use for public texts.  A friend (he's a linguistics PhD
student) and I were discussing the origin of the hanged/hung
distinction in English.  (Both are the past tense of `hang'; `hanged'
refers to capital punishment and `hung' refers to other kings of
hanging.)  My friend's thought was that the distinction was invented
in the nineteenth century along with many other English grammatical
"rules".  I suspected that it was much older.  So, I got my online
Shakespeare and checked.  Lo and behold, the distinction is quite
clear; out of the entire Shakespearean corpus there were three
really exceptions at all.

out to omit Act IV of King Lear.  

   crisp.  Your position is untenable.

My position is that inaccurate and faulty texts have uses--not
necessarily academic uses, but certainly uses of social importance.

   To do otherwise is to engage in offensively anti-social and
   anti-academic behaviour.  
