Re: History of French

From: Herman Rubin (hrubin_at_odds.stat.purdue.edu)
Date: 09/17/04 

Date: 17 Sep 2004 09:05:22 -0500

In article <414A4430.1E62@worldnet.att.net>,
Peter T. Daniels <grammatim@worldnet.att.net> wrote:
>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.

The "individuals do not matter" is not my position; it
is that of the totalitarian Marxists.

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

>Is that a Bad Thing?

Yes. They believe that the person does not count, that
the discoveries or advances are entirely due to the
social milieu. They believe that this should apply to
education as well, that all should be taught the same;
it is this perversion of education which started about
70 years ago which needs to be completely reversed. 

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