----- Original Message -----
 From: "Thermopyle" <thermopyle@tds.net>
 To: "Philip Bloom" <dracos12@hotmail.com>; "Angus MacSpon"
 <macspon@ihug.co.nz>
 Cc: <lurkerdrome@sbcglobal.net>; <chibipoe@mindspring.com>;
 <ffml@anifics.com>
 Sent: Wednesday, November 19, 2003 12:52 AM
 Subject: [FFML] Re: [Sailor Moon] [AU] Alternate Views 01

I did look it up, just to make sure that what I had been told time and
again was true.  I found many pages that specifically said it wasn't
correct.  As for dictionaries... check this link--
http://www.onelook.com/?w=smile&ls=a --and you'll see only two of the
eighteen general dictionaries give the definition you stated.  One of
them is the Cambridge International Dictionary of English.  The
Cambridge Dictionary of American English does NOT list that
definition, however.  Merriam-Webster's doesn't list it at all.

I'm not surprised that there are a couple of dictionaries that list
that definition.  It's a very common usage, even though it's just as
incorrect as all other non-speech action verbs.  Neither Oxford's
Advanced Learner's nor Cambridge International, for example, list
'nod' as 'to say with a nod,' even though that's a very common example
of this mistake as well.  Smile has become acceptable to some degree,
enough so that some dictionaries list its use as a speech tag in their
definitions, but it is still viewed as technically incorrect.

I just have one thing to say about this speech tag debate, who really
cares?! I sure don't care about it any. So stop cluttering up the list
with_it. There's only one thing I'm on this list for. And that is fanfic,
not debates on speach, grammar.



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