Re: Language Lessons
| From: | Cian Ross <cian@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, August 3, 2001, 3:54 |
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On 8/1/01 at 9:52 AM Amanda Babcock wrote:
>On Tue, Jul 31, 2001 at 10:11:53PM -0400, Herman Miller wrote:
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>I loved that it had grammar. I hate books where you can't find a good
>table of declensions to save your life.
You're neither weird (by my lights, anyway) nor alone. My first foreign
language was Latin--with lots of tables of declensions and conjugations.
And so it still annoys me to have to infer grammatical patterns rather than
just being shown them. Among other reasons, there always seems to be
some picky issue that just doesn't quite generalize in a way that a
non-native-speaker might expect.
Cian
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