atw: Re: Humbled [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]
- From: "Warren Lewington" <wjlewington@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <austechwriter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 9 Sep 2008 22:29:59 +1000
Grammar is in a nursing home with dementia...
Regards;
Warren.
-----Original Message-----
From: austechwriter-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:austechwriter-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of
brianclarke01@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Tuesday, 9 September 2008 13:45
To: austechwriter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: atw: Re: Humbled [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]
I think that some of us have not noticed that 'humble', which started life
as an adjective, has now Pam Petered its way into the kingdom of verbs. One
does not add 'ed' to adjectives - only to verbs to form past participles.
One of the major problems with the Macquarie dictionary is that it seldom
shows etymology. And when pressed, its authors refer to the 'corpus' of
deposited usage, as though in some strange way, use of a language follows
democratic, or even statistical rules. I suppose with the Boards of Studies
in each state having eschewed their students' needing to learn grammar, we
can no longer point to any possible known 'first cause' for changes in the
language. It just happens by magic, or osmosis - or bastardry?
Or am I being too old fashioned to believe that there is such a thing as
grammar?
Brian.
**************************************************
To view the austechwriter archives, go to
www.freelists.org/archives/austechwriter
To unsubscribe, send a message to austechwriter-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with
"unsubscribe" in the Subject field (without quotes).
To manage your subscription (e.g., set and unset DIGEST and VACATION modes)
go to www.freelists.org/list/austechwriter
To contact the list administrator, send a message to
austechwriter-admins@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
**************************************************
**************************************************
To view the austechwriter archives, go to
www.freelists.org/archives/austechwriter
To unsubscribe, send a message to austechwriter-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with
"unsubscribe" in the Subject field (without quotes).
To manage your subscription (e.g., set and unset DIGEST and VACATION modes) go
to www.freelists.org/list/austechwriter
To contact the list administrator, send a message to
austechwriter-admins@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
**************************************************
Other related posts:
