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And third, kind of peripheral but I think related: I'm taking a Latin class here at the university. Actually, it's my second semester. Here's a dismaying fact: Of course I'm the oldest person in the room, which is no problem. But one of the problems the students have with learning the rules of Latin grammar -- and it's hard -- is that they HAD NO GRAMMAR IN SCHOOL.


I changed the subject topic..because it has drastically changed from original. That's why I ignored the subject until I opened it today. smile


Ellen, interesting and sad. I secretly hope that having a blog will force some people to craft more cohert writing. It is shocking about the rip-off to workers at Foxconn in China who are working on iPad production lines. And these are university students.
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