Re: Grammar

TheNIGHTCRAWLER wrote:
> 
>  Something important was said:
> 
> >[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Herman Rubin) wrote:
> >>In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> >>Bill Bonde ( the oblique allusion in lieu of the frontal attack ) <[EMAIL 
> >>PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >>                      ................
> >>
> >>>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".
> >
> >lojbab
> 
> OOps... You just ran into me in atl.general.  "Correct language" is that
> which makes itself understood by those around one's self.
> 
> Having a common language to interact with folks outside one's
> neighborhood allows an expansion of ideas, knowledge and negates
> repetition of what one has already found out or been told.
> 
> Now then.  Why do we have spend 10 extra years learning an abundance of
> different languages to get across the same point?  The paper that could
> be saved in translation of directions in a product alone..... 20 pages
> per billion sold.
> 
So you are arguing for a common world language?