haha. looks like whoever wrote it suffers from confusion as to the
word 'who' being used for something other than a person. but I can't
imagine anything but "whose" being acceptable in (even academic)
language. ;)
I'm not american tho. (!)
K S
On 05/09/06, MJ Walker <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Perhaps Americans on the list can enlighten me about the following:
> looking online for commentary on Ashbery's *Three Poems* I found the
> following, said to be a report for a "Kelly Writers House Fellows
> Seminar": >> In George Hartley's Textual Politics and Language Poets, he
> makes clear that the term "Language poetry" is a label that's meaning
> may vary depending on who is defining it.<< Is there now a possessive
> relative pronoun/adjective "that's" in the accepted (even academic)
> American version/s of the language? This was published in 2002 and is
> still there, so nobody seems to have taken exception to it.
> Yours Puzzled of Ewell
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> One must be prepared for a piece of music which is laden with symbols: bells, Poltergeist knocks and grotesque figues. Kasper Rofelt.
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