At 12:14 PM 7/27/2006, Craig Hancock wrote:
>Phil,
>    I don't think for a moment that using "word classes" would imply
>anything about 2,000 plus years of scholarship. I doubt that anyone
>would find it remarkable at all. It's a set of classifications for
>words.
>    I think you're all alone on this argument. I appreciate your passion,
>but I think the consensus is on the other side.
>

DD: Why change from, "Parts of Speech?" Of course I learned them back 
in the Depression years of the 30's, about 4th grade. Why change the 
terminology? Just to be different and avant-garde? Oh well, lets just 
move to German, it sounds more erudite, anyway. Wortklassen ? I like that.  

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