Re: [tied] English.

>The literature from
>Shakespeare on down keep the current language in literary lockstep
>with that of the past: synchrony and diachrony being squeezed into
>one.

Um ... how much of that sentence would Shakespeare have understood? I think
that our literature enriches us when we choose to be enriched, but
constrains us nohow. My language is constrained only by what Miss Pringle
taught me in primary school - habits I cannot shake, such as the true
pronunciation of "often".

Peter