Hey, Bob!  I often feel shy about adding to his listserve. And you're a professor and I'm just a high school English teacher!
   
  My "lovable linguistics professor" was quite an oddity.  He was Chinese by birth and ethnicity, raised and educated in New Zealand, but he taught me more about the English language than any of my native-USA or British-born professors ever taught me.  Go figure.
   
  I don't know where this thread is going, but I what I'd like to say is that no one has the last word on the English language and that many second language learners know more about the English language than first-language users do!

"Miller, Robert" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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  Hello,
   
  I am new to the discussion, and this is my first time adding to the listserv (I feel as if I am on talk radio.).
   
  I was taught how to write by a Chinese colleague in my MA program. Most of what he taught me, I still use in my composition classes.
   
  Bob Miller
  Assistant Professor of English
  CCBC
   
    From: Assembly for the Teaching of English Grammar [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Brad Johnston
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    You let a native Frenchman teach you linguistics?  (in English, I presume)

     

    Wow!

     

    Isn't that like taking tennis lessons from a golf pro?

    

"Spruiell, William C" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

     

    one of my undergraduate linguistics professors, who happened to be a native speaker of French ...

    
    
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