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<blockquote type=cite class=cite cite="">I'm willing to bet that at most
five<br>
percent of faculty in English (ladder and lecturer) could pass a test
of<br>
original timed writing in a language other than English, if that
test<br>
required a level of writing equivalent to the Subject A's level.<br><br>
This would be an interesting experiment. Any
takers?</blockquote><br>
I already know I couldn't do it. I've said for a number of years
that I have great admiration for our ESL students who are taking college
courses in a language not their own. I've studied several
languages, and know perfectly well that I'd never survive a Subject A in
any of them, regardless of the length of time I studied some of them, and
the reading I did in two of them.<br><br>
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<blockquote type=cite class=cite cite="">--- <br>
--- Benjamin Harder<br><br>
ps: *I know that the proper verb here is "doesn't" because
"percent" is<br>
taken as a singular collective noun, but that just seems dumb to
me. I<br>
prefer the notion of a gaggle of individuals, even in statistics.
So I<br>
made a noun-verb agreement error. Sue me.<br><br>
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<font face="Comic Sans MS">"The problem with defending the purity of
the English language is that English is about as pure as a cribhouse
whore. We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other
languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and rifle their pockets
for new vocabulary."---James D. Nicoll, quoted in Joke A Day
February 6, 2002<br><br>
</font><font face="Centaur">"A lie gets halfway around the world
before the truth has a chance to get its pants on."---Winston
Churchill<br><br>
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