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One of my mistakes in attribution….. to a language

  01/17/2023       Pat Barrett      Add Comment

Very popular in my grandmother’s household was Lawrence Welk. Corny or cheesy do not begin to describe him. Popular throughout a certain set does. He (Continue Reading)

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A response to a blend of methodologies incl. paradigm work

  10/09/2014       Pat Barrett      Add Comment

I’d like to survey two matters at issue: one would be to ask Latin teachers what other languages do they know and how did they (Continue Reading)

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Views of grammar, views of life

  12/10/2013       Pat Barrett      Add Comment

From Proper English: Myths and Misunderstandings about Language by Ronald Wardhaugh, p. 179: “What we have are two groups of people who care about the (Continue Reading)

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The absurdities of proper grammar

  06/26/2013       Pat Barrett      Add Comment

Here’s another scenario: a guy shows up on your doorstep and asks if the kids running around have a dad in their life. The lady (Continue Reading)

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Response to message favoring EGT (explicit grammar teaching)

  09/03/2012       Pat Barrett      Add Comment

I like Troy’s message for two reasons: it states the ideas on teaching languages from the viewpoint of language as structures which can be consciously (Continue Reading)

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Two views of language

  09/01/2012       Pat Barrett      Add Comment

Henri, I have decided, since I turned 71 on Wednesday, to stop pussy-footing around on these issues on the several listservs I am on. This (Continue Reading)

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What a Prescriptivist Might Say

  07/17/2012       Pat Barrett      Add Comment

This thought experiment is difficult because prescriptivists make statements that are demonstrably untrue. An example is that a language community can dissolve into mutual incomprehensibility (Continue Reading)

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Response to complaints about the decline & fall of English

  07/14/2012       Pat Barrett      Add Comment

The heat of this argument offsets the lack of interest in it on the part of most people. Not many of us get “all het (Continue Reading)

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What Happens in Vagueness Stays In Vagueness

  04/17/2011       Pat Barrett      Add Comment

What Happens in Vagueness Stays in Vagueness  Back in February, the following article  http://www.city-journal.org/2011/21_1_snd-american-english.html  was recommended. It is titled What Happens In Vagueness Stays In (Continue Reading)

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The Humanities view of variation and deviation

  07/01/2010       Pat Barrett      Add Comment

Looking at these items: • Deviations are due to natural flaws in humans – laziness, slovenliness, stupidity, ignorance. • The best is selected out and (Continue Reading)

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Taken from the blog posted in March 2010

  06/29/2010       Pat Barrett      Add Comment

Comments on linguistic superiority complexes sparked this blog entry in me b/c what is dogging our profession now is the heritage of both classical learning (Continue Reading)

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Language is the common property of all humans & is the expression of thought

  06/29/2010       Pat Barrett      Add Comment

The comparison starts out “Language is the common property of all humans” on the linguistic side and “Language is the expression of thought” on the (Continue Reading)

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A very prejudiced viewpoint

  06/29/2010       Pat Barrett      Add Comment

I was just reading a review of Rosetta Stone by a teacher of Spanish and Chinese. The language she chose to study via Rosetta Stone (Continue Reading)

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