Re: unnatural languages

Am 14 Mar 2007 17:25:58 -0400 schrieb Herman Rubin:

In article <1173823970.981242.310730@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Peter T. Daniels <grammatim@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Mar 13, 4:53 pm, hru...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Herman Rubin) wrote:
In article <YE68kkJnro9FF...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Richard Herring <richard.herr...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Few American college students speak reasonably grammatical
English, and their writing is not much better.

By now, you are either deliberately lying, or you are utterly
uneducable.

Possibly college students in language departments
students, and have read letters of application
by them.


Is that sentence grammatical English?

Joachim
.

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