Re: [tied] PIE grammar made simple (1)

--- In cybalist@..., Julianus <julianus@...> wrote:

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> markodegard@... wrote:
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> > In America, grammar is NOT taught, and has not been for 50 years.
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> I can certainly attest that from my own experience. I never heard

of

> such a thing as 'case' until I took German my last two years in high
> school, and all the teacher did was refer to 'dative' without really
> explaining what it was. Interestingly enough the teacher was from
> Germany and maybe she assumed that stuff was covered here. This
> omission may help explain my lack of success with foreign languages.
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> One more reason why we're planning to home-school our kids.
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> -- Julianus

The main objection to home-schooling is that of 'socialization'. After
that, you look hard the the qualifications of the parents to educate
their children. I am in the liberal tradition, the Western tradition:
Darwin and Calvin are my saints. Home-schooling tends to be a
code-term for 'supposedly born-again but hopelessly ignorant
pseudo-Christian'. This latter class tends to educate their children
to believe in fables, to become warriors of jihad. This is not how
civilization works. Rather, home-schooled boys are the vicious
mannerbund biker-gangs who wrecked the civilization of Marija
Gimbutas' Old Europeans.

We IndoEuropeans are complicated people.