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undemocratic to attack “incorrect” English

The Linguistic credo was that it was undemocratic to attack “incorrect” English… Leonard Bloomfield’s egalitarian theories of education, in essence, insisted that “correct” or “good” English was a form of social snobbery perpetuated by the “fanciful doctrine” swallowed by an … Continue reading

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what came first: the structure or the grammar?

Linguistics began to evolve from philology in the latter half of the nineteenth century, and the most important events occurred in France and Russia. In Paris a young scholar named Ferdinand de Saussure ( 1857-1913) conceived the idea that structure, … Continue reading

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structural linguistics: anarchy of the letters and words

…Far more baleful, however, than any of theo ther circumstances contributing to the demise of literacy and the degeneration of English can in some measure, significant measure seen in the abandonment of grammar in favor of what became known as … Continue reading

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multiple choice illiteracy?

…Equally controversial, and it would seem, even less defensible than the look-say method of reading, was the strange device known as “vocabulary control,” which is expressly designed to hold down the number of words a child may learn at any … Continue reading

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ROCK THEIR GYPSY SOUL

Wordsworth called the Gypsies “wild outcasts of society.” In the folklore of he nineteenth and twentieth centuries, they appear mainly in the guise of dark-haired, mysterious fortunetellers and colorfully dressed violinists, ready to break into song at the drop of … Continue reading

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