[B5JMS] Jerry Doyle hopeful of B5 revival

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From: "John W. Kennedy" <jwkenne at attglobal.net>
Date: Mon, 1 Sep 2003 07:44:01 +0000 (UTC)
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Jms at B5 wrote:
>>For it is the well from whence thou springeth,
> Actually, from and whence mean pretty much the same thing, so that's a
> redundency.  It should be either "from which" or just "whence"  It's a common
> misuse of the vernacular.

> Yrs, on behalf of the grammar police,

Oh dear.  I'm afraid you've been misled by the "grammarians" who insist 
that English should be more like some other, more "respectable" language 
(usually like Latin or French).  "From whence" is used by Shakespeare, 
Spenser, the King James Bible, Milton, Dryden, Swift, Benjamin Franklin, 
Thomas Jefferson, and Dickens.

-- 
John W. Kennedy
"You can, if you wish, class all science-fiction
together; but it is about as perceptive as classing the
works of Ballantyne, Conrad and W. W. Jacobs together
as the 'sea-story' and then criticizing _that_."
   -- C. S. Lewis.  "An Experiment in Criticism"



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From: jmsatb5 at aol.com (Jms at B5)
Date: Mon, 1 Sep 2003 22:28:27 +0000 (UTC)
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>Oh dear.  I'm afraid you've been misled by the "grammarians" who insist 
>that English should be more like some other, more "respectable" language 
>(usually like Latin or French).  "From whence" is used by Shakespeare, 

Citation, please?

 jms

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