Re: On the cattle nomenclature thread

Kate Gladstone <handwritingrepair@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in
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I don't think Proper Grammar >came into that phrase ...

Cindy, I don't understand. How can utterances in any variety of a
language, by an adult native speaker of that language, not involve
knowing how that language assembles its words (or other units of
meaning) into utterances?



Simple: proper grammar has a place but it often isn't in colloquial
usage. I write email in that mode; many writers (prose and poets) do
the same. I've also helped proof papers where proper grammar mattered
(and winced at computerized grammar checkers) in English and French.
There is a time and place for everything.

Cindy Wells
(I had one year of junior high/middle school with 4 different English
teachers stressing grammar rules with no other lesson plans. After
that year I made an effort to avoid remembering that set of nightmares.
It doesn't always work. (I hit a weird combo - my family moved in
January and my original English teacher that year went on maternity
leave in October. Then I hit post-midterm "you obviously didn't learn
this subject" and pre-final exam "you have to learn this".))

Kate Gladstone - http://www.learn.to/handwrite

Kate Gladstone - http://www.learn.to/handwrite



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