Re: Grammar

In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Bob LeChevalier  <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Herman Rubin) wrote:
>>In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
>>Bill Bonde ( the oblique allusion in lieu of the frontal attack ) <[EMAIL 
>>PROTECTED]> wrote:

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>>>An educational system which ignores the native grammar of a group of
>>>people is going to produce less than excellent results.

>>This is typical of those who do not believe that there
>>can be a "correct" language. 

>You mean "linguists".

Do most linguists believe that today?  The ones who post
on sci.lang seem to believe that a language is whatever
the man in the street speaks, and that native speakers 
of a language speak in "perfectly".
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