Re: OT-ish: txt - Could it replace Standard Written English?
| From: | Christophe Grandsire <christophe.grandsire@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, March 6, 2003, 19:30 |
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En réponse à Joe <joe@...>:
>
> Maybe Linguistics should be taught, but in a descriptivist sense, not
> a
> prescriptivist. Maybe people should be taught to analyse their own
> language,
> not the language of the victorians. And, incidentally, we learnt what a
> verb
> is, what a noun is, what a subject is, what the passive voice is, and so
> on
> in the primary school.
>
Well, according to Kendra, all those things are not taught in American primary
schools anymore. And her school is an "Advanced Level" one... Says a lot about
the others doesn't it?
Christophe.
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