Re: here is some stuff i want all of ya'll to look at even though you have better things to do.

Chris Bates wrote:

> If your school was anything like mine, they probably didn't cover even
> English grammar properly, let alone that of whatever Foreign language
> you were taught.

In my school, forn grammar was covered significantly better then English
grammar.

> I live in England, and the school system here doesn't
> even teach English grammar properly... there are separate GCSEs English
> and English Literature, but there might as well not be to be honest,
> since both seem to consist mostly of English poems and Literature.


I don't like that either.

> It
> took me until I was 16/17 (after doing GCSEs in English and French) to
> finally learn some basic linguistic concepts, because I started reading
> about languages out of interest. Before then my knowledge of language
> (not counting my subconscious knowledge of English of course) amounted
> to the difference between a noun, an adjective, and a verb, and of
> course a few bits of sometimes misleading terminology from French (like
> "Tense" incorrectly used to refer to Tense/Aspect/Mode combinations) and
> little else.

Well, that is how the speakers of the language in question refer to
them, I think.