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Myself don’t want too hoe nothing actually. Its to hot outside. Demand not that events should happen as you wish; but wish them to happen as they do happen, and you will go on well. -Epictetus | |||
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I didn't realize diagramming sentences is no longer taught. | |||
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I started kindergarten in 1966 and never once diagrammed a sentence my entire time in school to my (English perfect) mother's surprise. "If you’re a leader, you lead the way. Not just on the easy ones; you take the tough ones too…” – MAJ Richard D. Winters (1918-2011), E Company, 2nd Battalion, 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne "Woe to those who call evil good, and good evil... Therefore, as tongues of fire lick up straw and as dry grass sinks down in the flames, so their roots will decay and their flowers blow away like dust; for they have rejected the law of the Lord Almighty and spurned the word of the Holy One of Israel." - Isaiah 5:20,24 | |||
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The last time I saw a sentence diagrammed was in 1967 in a public school (8th grade) in San Francisco. I had never seen the practice before No, Daoism isn't a religion | |||
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אַרְיֵה |
 הרחפת שלי מלאה בצלופחים | |||
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I haven't diagramed a sentence in over 50 years . Somehow I survived . | |||
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What do I care if I know English? I'm never going to England. "We're all travelers in this world. From the sweet grass to the packing house. Birth 'til death. We travel between the eternities." | |||
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A friend of mine studied Esperanto. He speaks it like a native. הרחפת שלי מלאה בצלופחים | |||
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^^^ Interesting. Is it useful in any meaningful way? "We're all travelers in this world. From the sweet grass to the packing house. Birth 'til death. We travel between the eternities." | |||
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You guys really need to reign this stuff in.This message has been edited. Last edited by: egregore, | |||
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To reiterate my earlier comment, phrases like “to/for my wife and I” act as speed bumps in anything I might be reading, and I find them in serious works by people or their editors who should know better. A modest proposal, though: rather than “grammar Nazi,” what about “grammar Patton”? I doubt there would have been/are any real Nazis who would fret much about English grammar and word usage. General G. S. Patton, though? Based on all I’ve read about his obsessions over the slightest details concerning almost everything, I must believe that, “My son gave my wife and I a nice present,” would send him into a face-slapping frenzy. As bad as the Nazis were, must we nevertheless blame them—or in this case give them credit—for everything? ► 6.4/93.6 ___________ “We are Americans …. Together we have resisted the trap of appeasement, cynicism, and isolation that gives temptation to tyrants.” — George H. W. Bush | |||
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No grammar for you!  הרחפת שלי מלאה בצלופחים | |||
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Skirting the edge of the "no apostrophes to indicate plural" rule.
Who pissed in your Nazi-O's?This message has been edited. Last edited by: egregore, | |||
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^^^  | |||
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Grammar Patton ? You don't get it .. | |||
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