Patrick Shanahan wrote:
* John E. Perry <j.e.perry@cox.net> [12-22-09 21:22]:
Of course, since the idiots at UC Berkely and their partners in infamy declared during the '60's that grammar and spelling are irrelevant to English, we've developed 3 generations of teachers who are as ignorant of English grammar as their students are.
Ah, perhaps you really ment: "... ignorant of English grammar as their students." To be proper, that is.
:Y)
Well, no; I inserted the verb that is frequently, even usually elided in normal English speech -- and in writing, now that writing is shedding some of the 19th-century dross. We're both right, unless you're treating "as" as a preposition rather than as a conjunction. Hmm. With the advancement of English further into the analytic category and out of the synthetic category of its predecessors, you're right, too, even treating "as" as a preposition. :-P jp -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org