[Rhodes22-list] Grammer

[3drecon at comcast.net]

There was a new story a few years ago that Georgetown was going to eliminate classic liturature from the mandatory curricula.  I can't really take apart a sentence but I learned to write by reading the classics.  They want to teach "relative" English (similar to "relative" mathamatics).  If it feels good and you are understood, it's ok.  The administrators are doing the students a great disservice.  

Philip


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From: "L. Sailor" <watermusic38 at yahoo.com> 

> We'll be seeing more, not less, of this as we reap the 
> rewards of the anti-grammar movements of the 70's- 
> 90's. 
> 
> elle 
> 
> --- 3drecon at comcast.net wrote: 
> 
> > How about "for" free or "less" people (or insert 
> > your own object) rather than "fewer". It makes me 
> > crazy! 
> > 
> > Philip 
> > 
> > -------------- Original message -------------- 
> > From: "L. Sailor" 
> > 
> > > An easy way to remember: 
> > > 
> > > "I imply, you infer" and 'Bring & come', 'take & 
> > go.' 
> > > 
> > > Do you think they'll ever get 'number' & 'amount' 
> > > straight again...as in "A large amount of 
> > accidents on 
> > > I-95." AARGH. 
> > > 
> > > (Sorry...the schoolmarm just reared her 
> > pince-nez'd 
> > > head...) 
> > > 
> > > elle 
> > > 
> > > --- Herb Parsons wrote: 
> > > 
> > > > Small point, but you're misusing the word 
> > "infer". 
> > > > You would have made the implication, Brad would 
> > have 
> > > > (but maybe not) drawn the inference. 
> > > > 
> > > > 
> > > > Herb Parsons 
> > > > 
> > > > S/V O'Jure 
> > > > 1976 O'Day 25 
> > > > Lake Grapevine, N TX 
> > > > 
> > > > S/V Reve de Papa 
> > > > 1971 Coronado 35 
> > > > Lake Pontchartrain, Louisiana Coast 
> > > > 
> > > > >>> DCLewis1 at aol.com 10/26/2006 3:26:05 pm >>> 
> > > > 
> > > > In a message dated 10/26/2006 9:16:12 A.M. 
> > Eastern 
> > > > Standard Time, 
> > > > flybrad at gmail.com writes: 
> > > > 
> > > > Remember, "Good people sleep peaceably in their 
> > beds 
> > > > at night only because 
> > > > rough men stand ready to do violence on their 
> > > > behalf." 
> > > > 
> > > > 
> > > > 
> > > > Brad, 
> > > > 
> > > > Regarding "read between the lines": In my 
> > experience 
> > > > reading between the 
> > > > lines applies to poetry and fiction - perhaps 
> > that's 
> > > > were you're experience 
> > > > is. But in the real world, if I wanted to say 
> > the 
> > > > men and women in the service 
> > > > were to dumb to get jobs in the private sector I 
> > 
> > > > would have said it plainly. 
> > > > I didn't say it, I didn't infer it, and I didn't 
> > 
> > > > think it. You might well 
> > > > served if you learned to read the English 
> > language 
> > > > as it's presented and 
> > > > curb your imaginative paranoid tendencies. 
> > > > 
> > > > As to Remember, "Good people sleep peaceably in 
> > > > their beds at night only 
> > > > because 
> > > > rough men stand ready to do violence on their 
> > > > behalf." 
> > > > 
> > > > Who protects the good people from the rough men? 
> > Oh 
> > > > yeah, there is that 
> > > > problem, and there is no free lunch. Good people 
> > 
> > > > have to protect themselves, 
> > > > and we're quite capable of doing that. I don't 
> > need 
> > > > any rough man to do 
> > > > violence on my behalf, thank you, and I suspect 
> > that 
> > > > applies to everyone else on 
> > > > this list. 
> > > > 
> > > > Dave 
> > > > 
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