I found the same, Fred, as well as grammar-savvy "foreigners" newly come to
the U.S. Embarassing.
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From: "Frederick Pollack" <[log in to unmask]>
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Subject: Re: "I - Thou"
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> From: "Judy Prince" <[log in to unmask]>
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> Subject: Re: "I - Thou"
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> A really fine ouch-punch, Fred
>
> Chirs,
>
> Judy
>
> Over the weekend I finished grading the third and last short stories from
> my introductory creative writing class. Some of my kids have made
> themselves think about plot, characterization, showing-not-telling etc.,
> but still, quite evidently, *cannot think* about the logic of a *sentence.
> Poem was merciful compared to what I could have written about their
> high-school English teachers - or, more fittingly, the people who decide
> what gets taught and how seriously. Every semester I ask if anyone has
> ever had a class that explicitly concerned itself with "grammar." One or
> at most two hands go up - and usually they both went to Catholic school.
> The nuns beat it into them.
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