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   Alexander Koryagin to Anton Shepelev:   
      
   AK>>> When  a  person  is  in  a company of friends he never   
   AK>>> speaks formally.  And he should  not  to.  It  is  too   
   AK>>> loathsome, IMHO.   
   AS>> Correction:  "should  not" or "ought not to" (depending   
   AS>> on what you mean).   
   AK> Is it true, Ardith? Can I replace "speak" for "to"?   
      
   My answer is no, you cannot replace "speak" with  "to",  nor   
   substitute  "to"  for "speak", because one is a verb and the   
   other a preposition.  You can,  however,  replace  one  verb   
   with another, e.g.:   
      
               I love you better than I do myself.   
      
   AK> Languages follow people, not textbooks. Textbooks follow   
   AK> languages. ;-)   
      
   It is not so simple.  In order to  improve  a  program,  you   
   must first acquire a thorough understanding of its structure   
   and working.  The same with language.   Good  books -- among   
   which  I  rank  Goold Brown's "Grammar of English Grammars",   
   Fowler's "King's  English",  and  even  Emerson's  essay  on   
   language -- enhance our command of language and thus give us   
   both the power and right  to  improve  it.  The  destiny  of   
   language  shall  not  be left at the mercy of the illitirate   
   and the careless.   
      
   AK> As for the article I have  already  discussed  here  the   
   AK> similar  case,  when  one prince returned home "smelling   
   AK> like horse". In other words, English is not very strict.   
   AK> ;)   
      
   Not at all, and Dallas Hinton explained it well that in this   
   phrase `horse' is uncountable becauase denotes a  substance.   
   In  Shakespeare,  however,  `snail'  certainly refers to the   
   whole individual animal.  Observe that Americans  use  `pie'   
   uncountably, too, e.g.: "We had tea and apple pie".   
      
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