Re: History of French
From: Herman Rubin (hrubin_at_odds.stat.purdue.edu)
Date: 09/17/04
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Date: 17 Sep 2004 11:00:13 -0500
In article <1q7lk0lohbc6q7hd95qop4f6j07hi5nfjg@4ax.com>,
Ruud Harmsen <realemailseesite01@rudhar.com> wrote:
>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.
I am not confusing them; it is those who have difficulty in
seeing that fitting facts into a structure is not only possible
but natural who have the difficulty.
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