- Nov 07, 2020
Grammar Quotes
On rules, schooling, and the discipline of learning a language.
These grammar quotes move between memories of grammar school itself, including introducing cheerleading where there had been none, and the adult work of learning Italian syntax and conjugation from a purist Act approach.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was a cheerleader in grammar school. There were no cheerleaders in that school I made them have them.
- Perspective
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Learning the Italian was tough. I tried to really come at from a purist perspective, really learn the grammar, syntax and conjugations.
- Him
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His eyes so dim, so wasted each limb, that, heedless of grammar, they all cried, that's him!
- Grammar School
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At age 11 in 1960, I moved to an academic state secondary school, Harrow County Grammar School for Boys.
- How
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Grammar, which knows how to control even kings.
- Medicine
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I studied at a grammar school and later at the University of Vienna in the Faculty of Medicine.
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Statistics is the grammar of science.
- Fierce
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Arguments over grammar and style are often as fierce as those over IBM versus Mac, and as fruitless as Coke versus Pepsi and boxers versus briefs.
- Growing Up
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A lot of Hollywood kids went to my grammar school growing up. I'm completely unmoved by it.
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Greek was very much a live language, and a language still unconscious of grammar, not, like ours, dominated by definitions and trained upon dictionaries.
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- Nov 07, 2020