languages

From: allisonp_at_world.std.com <(allisonp_at_world.std.com)>
Date: Thu Mar 9 08:08:37 2000

On Thu, 9 Mar 2000, Merle K. Peirce wrote:

>
> I think that trend to continue as long as social activists try to promote
> gibberish as language, as the ebonics debacle.

I'd be one to agree with that.
 
> I have always done well with English, and that is my field, where I earned
> two degrees, and always regretted not getting another. I do recall,
> though, that studying Latin did make things seem much easier to me, if
> only because the language forced organised thought. I think German might
> function that way also.

Some may laugh but it was learning Pascal after years of assembler,
focal and Basics that helped improve my english as it was the first time
I got to see structure at work. Up to that point verbs and nouns were
more of an abstraction needed to pass tests than working tools.

Allison
Received on Thu Mar 09 2000 - 08:08:37 GMT