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Re: OT: "Gissa a Job!" & Location
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- Subject: Re: OT: "Gissa a Job!" & Location
- From: "Keith Doxey" <ukha@xxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 19 Oct 2001 13:39:55 -0000
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I thought that "syntax" was a computer term because the first
time I
cam across it was when I bought my BBC Model B and the most common
thing on the screen was "Syntax Error"
Just been discussing this at work and was told that the Shakespere
bit was "English Literature" and the grammatical bit was
"English
Language". At my school we only had "English" just as we
only
had "Science" until the year after I left when they had
Chemistry,
Physics, Biology etc.
Keef 'Call me fik' Doxey
--- In ukha_d@y..., "Ian Lowe" <ian@w...> wrote:
> I for one have no idea what an indefinite possessive is, perhaps
because
> by the time I studied English at High School (1983-1988), they had
long
> given up on any idea of teaching a Standard Grammar of the
language, and
> instead moved across to teaching purely English Literature.
>
> As I recall, it was only when I had a deep discussion with a german
guy
> that I actually realised that there even *was* a formal grammar in
> English.
>
> Ian.
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