Re: USAGE: gotten

But I say they're not concerned about content
either--the stereotypical modern high school English
teacher in America is most concerned with making sure
everyone "expresses themselves" and "writes what he
feels" and it's more about pop psychology than about
English.

Aware I wrote a run-on sentence,
Clint

--- Barry Garcia <barry_garcia@...> wrote:
> CONLANG@LISTSERV.BROWN.EDU writes:
> >It's ungrammatical to traditionalists but has come
> >into usage and acceptance in the States via sloppy
> >teaching.
> >
> >Clint
>
> Or perhaps most teachers prefer content over strict
> following of grammar?
> I'm sure to those Latin grammarians thought that all
> of those lovely new
> ways of forming sentences in Vulgar Latin were
> considered "sloppy" as
> well. Can't make everyone happy i guess.
>
> ;)
>
> Had i erased all of these emails on this subject,
> i'd not have gotten this
> far. I wonder if you've gotten the sarcasm of my
> email. ;).
>
>
>
> __________________________
> Communication is not just words, communication
> is...architecture
> because of course it is quite obvious that  the
> house that would be built
> without that desire, that desire to communicate,
> would not look as your
> house does today.

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