Re: Grammar in HS (Was: Re: Argument Structures)

Yoon Ha Lee wrote:
> I got laughed at in
> middle school--6th grade GT, I think--when I said poLItics instead of
> POlitics, among other embarrassing examples.
There's a theory, I don't know what the status on this is, that the
different accentual patterns in certain words in Irish-English are the
result of early schoolteachers who learned English from books, not from
speech, and so had to guess at where it was.

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"Their bodies did not age, but they became afeared of everything and
anything.  For partaking in any activity at all could threaten their
precious and ageless bodies! ... Their victory over death was a hollow
one."
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