Re: OT More pens (was Re: Phoneme winnowing continues)
| From: | Joe <joe@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, June 10, 2003, 16:18 |
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Christophe Grandsire" <christophe.grandsire@...>
To: <CONLANG@...>
Sent: Tuesday, June 10, 2003 10:30 AM
Subject: Re: OT More pens (was Re: Phoneme winnowing continues)
> En réponse à John Cowan :
>
>
> >The point is that *generalizing* across the education system of the U.S.
> >is invariably ill-informed, because *nobody* is well informed on this
> >subject. Some schools are very good, some are very bad. Some are
> >traditional, some are not. There's no particular correlation. Or
> >maybe there is, but *nobody knows*, because nobody has done the
> >research, or could afford to.
>
> Still, people complain about the "American education system" (even though
> it doesn't exist as such) from about everywhere in America, whatever their
> origin and location. It must mean something about the average level of
> education.
It means people like to complain.