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- From: ehp@poe.acc.Virginia.EDU ("Didi Pancake")
- Subject: Re: Grammar
- Message-ID: <1992Dec23.145239.2468@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU>
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- Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 14:52:39 GMT
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- In article <Bzo3uw.FGo@nocusuhs.nnmc.navy.mil> yoshi@nocusuhs.nnmc.navy.mil (D M Yoshikami) writes:
- >Something that I forgot to mention. One other very good way to learn
- >grammar is to take a foreign language such as German or Spanish. If
- >you feel like going for the gusto, take Latin or Greek.
-
- I have ALWAYS maintained that the most valuable portion of my formal
- education was the two years of (required) Latin in high school. That gave
- me the background to understand (or at least take a stab at) vast numbers
- of words in a variety of languages and particularly in the scientific
- disciplines (useful since I'm a science librarian much of the time).
-
- Anyone else feel this way about Latin or Greek? or about some other
- portion of their formal educaiton? I'd be interested to hear other
- opinions.
-
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- | Didi Pancake | Managing professionals |
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