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"Perhaps in another century or two, the school system will accelerate to match the glacial pace of language change, and children will actually be taught English grammar instead of picking it up on the streets." -- John Lawler, http://www-personal.umich.edu/~jlawler/aue/itsraining.html
english as she is spoke
I never even heard of some of the parts of speach until schoolhouse rock. Advanced stuff had to wait until I took foreign language.
I graduated HS and attended some college, and went to learn language at DLI and ran headlong into }}}GRAMMAR{{{{. what the heck is a past perfect? Pluperfect? future imperfect? What the heck do you mean it matters if the action is 'completed" or not.
The scary part is: I went to private school until HS, and went to a "magnet academic school" in HS. I also blew the top off every verbal or English test they ever ran.
740 verbal on the SATs, top 99+ percentile on almost all the language skills... but for all that I learned more about grammar in the SCA and Fandom than I ever did at school.
Now in fairness, I do have a Learning Disability, that went undiagnosed until senior year, but still....
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