Re: History of French

From: Peter T. Daniels (grammatim_at_worldnet.att.net)
Date: 09/17/04 

Date: Fri, 17 Sep 2004 01:56:01 GMT

Herman Rubin wrote:
>
> In article <p5ugk0ho4ifmbk65kks8cdpmmid3bsn7m7@4ax.com>,
> Mxsmanic <mxsmanic@hotmail.com> wrote:
> >Ruud Harmsen writes:
>
> >> I never noticed anything PC (poltically correct, that's what you mean,
> >> not Personal Computer?) in what I read about linguistics.
>
> >Every academic domain is rife with PC, unfortunately.
>
> The worst is history; it no longer starts with the
> evolution of ideas, and the military and economic
> events which led to the development, but instead
> the changes are attributed to the lives of peasants
> in the societies. Individuals do not matter.

Looks like you've studied as much historiography as linguistics.

> There are more intellectual Marxists on the social
> science faculties in American universities than in
> the former Soviet Union.

Is that a Bad Thing? 

-- 
Peter T. Daniels                       grammatim@att.net

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