Re: They hid behind Darwin


robin wrote:
Yeah, I had a young guy like that. Hang in there buddy (Robert
Carnegie). My young friend frankly admitted how ignorant he was, how
baffled by the language he was trying to learn. "Genitive case is like
possessive in English and modern languages."

Are you being disingenuous?


No shame in admitting your ignorance. (The only shame is remaining
there.)

So, when you fail to quote the post you are responding to, is it part
of your determination to be obscure, or is it a true inability to
comprehend what you read (it has been explained to you how to do so,
several times)?


"Keep trying" (my teachers used to pound away, to me, when I whined.)

OK.
1. Post the pertinent part of the post you are responding to.
2. Get to the point.


A teacher "loses" no matter what she does. We just have to remember
that some seed falls on good soil, the old ones say. While other soil
has never seen the plow. The best learning sometimes takes hard work,
or self-denial, or intellectual "blood, sweat, toil, and tears."

You're not a teacher, Robin. You're a lost soul thrashing about in the
newspapers in the end of the alley.


The man who said that was ostracised in his native UK all through the
thirties. Did he "have a point?"

Nearly every time he talked, and he always spoke plainly.


History seems to think he did. See JFK's While England Slept

See Strunk & White's _The Elements of Style_.


aequam memento rebus in arduis servare mentem

(or .... don't fret when the going get's tough)

Kermit
Wetsu!

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