Those who wish copies of "Grammar Today" don't have to resort to theft.
Complimentary copies are still available. Just indicate the number of
copies, along with your snail mail address, using my email address
([log in to unmask]), not the ATEG list. (I can no longer send overseas as
the postage is prohibitive.) To DD for his encouraging words, especially
about potential users of "Grammar Today," many thanks. His observations
accurately reflect my attempt.
Dick Betting, Emeritus Professor, Valley City State University, Valley City,
ND 58072.
----- Original Message -----
From: "DD Farms" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Tuesday, June 24, 2008 6:28 PM
Subject: Have you dined? {Richard Betting related}


> At 04:39 PM 6/24/2008, Spruiell, William C wrote: . . .
> >When someone replies to "Ya eat yet?" with "Yeah I did,"  . . .
>
> DD: I urge all to rush out and buy or steal, or whatever, Professor
> Richard betting's book, "Grammar Today: The New American Language and
> Grammar Primer." ISBN 9780979993602. It is child's play to the more
> experienced linguistics here, but for the rest of us, it is a
> fascinating introduction to the problems here being discussed. Would
> be a great High School text for the advanced and higher IQ students,
> and great for University Freshmen. Well I guess you would say I
> thoroughly enjoyed it. The part on what is the definition of a
> sentence is worth the price of admission. The part on tonality
> definition of what constitutes a sentence, mind boggling. {It is a
> sad thing to lose DD's mind or for his never having one, so to say.}
> I was asked by my ROKAF advisees in Korea, "What means the greeting,
> "Cheat jet? No chew?" Of course it was perfectly understandable to an
> American GI. "Did you eat, yet? No, did you?" I recall asking my
> Korean tutor what a particularly guttural sound was transliterated
> as. She said the sound did not exist in Korean. About a half hour
> later, as we left the disco, I heard the sound and punched her alert,
> it occurred again. She said, "I guess it does occur, I just never
> heard it that way, before. She listened over the next several days
> and reported that she was amazed that she hadn't noticed it before.
> It is like unto us in fly over land hearing a valley girl speak for
> the first time and thinking her statements are all questions, because
> we hear and interpret the intonations as question sentences. Fascinating.
>
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