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Re: Learning to conlang to write better english!

From:Ph. D. <phild@...>
Date:Thursday, June 2, 2005, 0:49
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??
> Language Log-link: > http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/002215.html > > Link to story at the NY Times (get it while it's free!): > http://www.nytimes.com/2005/05/31/opinion/31fish.html
--Ph. D.

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