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Burkhart Leuschner's story about how he got into gramar studies reads
very like my own.  I arrived at grammar studies by thinking "there
must be something to this subject that everyone talks about but no
one can give a straight answer on."
 
I figured that the subject could only become more uselessly
complicated in the more recent rush to publish era, so I decided to
look back.
 
The breakthrough for me came when I stumbled upon the article on
"Grammar" in our library's reprint of the first Encyclopedia
Britannica.  This reprint appears to be easily available in many
libraries.
 
I will use Burkhart's words to describe the impression that this
article made on me:  it describes grammar "using the same kind of
logic and the same kind of thinking that we use in real life and in
the sciences in general."
 
 
Sincerely, Robert Einarsson
please visit my web site at
www.artsci.gmcc.ab.ca/people/einarssonb