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Re: student bloopers



Archie Bunker didn't have to look far for him famous  "isms".
			--stephen

On Mon, 31 Mar 1997, Jeanne H. Simpson wrote:

> I worry sometimes about how strange the world must seem to students whose
> experience includes valid Victorians, and those they take for granite, tea
> and strumpets....  No wonder grammar and punctuation seem utterly beyond
> them if the language itself creates these bizarre images unrelated to
> their context.  And we wonder why oral explanations don't work....
> 
> Jeanne Simpson
> csjhs@eiu.edu
>