Re: History of French

From: Ruud Harmsen (realemailseesite01_at_rudhar.com)
Date: 09/17/04 

Date: Fri, 17 Sep 2004 10:25:07 +0200

16 Sep 2004 16:50:54 -0500: hrubin@odds.stat.purdue.edu (Herman
Rubin): in sci.lang:

>Children may have to learn that way. The clumsiness is
>perpetuated by those in education who cannot themselves
>understand that an abstract idea is NOT an abstraction,
>but an entity in itself. Grammar is not merely a list
>of what is done, but even in completely oral languages
>became formative.

You are confusing two meanings of the word 'grammar'. Again. 

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