taliesin the storyteller wrote:
>
> I read the linguistics-blog "Language Log" semi-regularly, and today
> they had a story about a professor of English who has his students
> conlanging during an entire course to improve their English.
>
> Funny that it's an *English* prof. doing this and not "real" linguists . .
.
Not really. His point is to get them to understand *English* grammar,
something generally glossed over in current secondary school
education in the United States.
Why couldn't I have had a freshman writing class like this??
--Ph. D.