At 01:29 PM 02/15/2001 -0600, David D Mulroy wrote:
>...Is there any other field where you can supposedly excel while referring
>to the tools of your trade as whatchamacallits?

Professional athletes do pretty well without knowing the names of the
muscles they use, nor without a conscious understanding of how they
coordinate various muscles to do what they do. Language is one of many
skills that rely on unconscious knowledge, like running or jumping. An
athlete may gain some advantage by studying physiology, and a speaker may
gain some advantage by studying grammar, but many others do just fine
without that conscious knowledge.

Dick Veit

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