France is now a strong US Ally?

[Dark Moth]

hehe, mothman, corrected meta's typo only to make his own... with the same letter.

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D'oh! Foiled again by the ADS!

Edited March 15, 2006 by Mothman

[metadigital]

Latin is the basis of ALL the Romantic languages (French, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, which are all just modern local dialects of what classical latin has become), so it makes sense to teach that ... additionally, it has also been a major influence on English, first through the Norman conquest and the use of French at the beginning of the last millennium, and subsequently, during the renaissance when vocabulary was borrowed directly from the classics to help explain the latest inventions and discoveries, to supplement the germanic Anglo-Saxon base.

 

Biggest mistake of the hippy-touchy-feely 70s, when "teachers" decided that, to learn English, students didn't need all that unnecessary grammar and silly rules. Stupid morons.

[~Di]

PS It's Post Scriptum and Post Post Scriptum, and so abbreviated to PS and PPS.

PPS French is madatory in British schools as a second language. Just about every European learns a second European language: the Dutch are practically born with four languages. It's only the US where the Earth's languages are reduced to Sesame Street version of English, only. 

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Hmm. Granted it's been a while since I was in school, but three years of studying one foreign language (Spanish, French or German) was absolutely mandatory when I was in high school. That and Sesame Street English, of course.

 

Biggest mistake of the hippy-touchy-feely 70s, when "teachers" decided that, to learn English, students didn't need all that unnecessary grammar and silly rules. Stupid morons.

 

Required subjects may have changed over the years or from district to district, of course, but what did you mean by the above statement? When my children went to school, they most certainly were required to study grammar and rules of the language.

 

(BTW, when trying to generalize insult to imply that the entire populace of a country is ignorant about language and grammar, it's usually best to proofread one's own language and grammar to avoid embarrassment. Also, spelling counts. )

Edited March 16, 2006 by ~Di