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22. A "triple contraction" - impressive!

Reply to Arkansas Granny (Original post)

Sun Apr 18, 2021, 01:04 AM

Apr 2021

In the '70s at a state university I was all gung ho about getting down to the bare bones of language and took a grammar course, which I thought would make me an authority.

Well, along with other trends of the '70s in the touchy-feely vein, I was told that the Old grammar was OUT, that that was "prescriptive" grammar (rules), and that what this course was about was "DESCRIPTIVE" grammar, defined as "deep structure/meaning".

And other '70s things were that studying "Egypt" was OUT and touchy-feely was IN.

So what do I see on YouTube now - why, it's the amazing civilization of all things ancient, specifically Egypt along with Greece and the amazing Romans.

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