Date:  Mon, 15 Jan 1996 21:13:37 EST

From:  Terry Lynn Irons <t.irons[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]MOREHEAD-ST.EDU>

Subject: Re: myths about language



>

> A few years ago I had a list of myths about language that I used to begin

> my semester in Intro to Ling. I had taken quite a few from the first

> page of somebody's (work?)book, and made additions. Now I can't find it.

>

> Can you help me out? Most of these were short, such as

>

> Never end a sentence with a preposiiton

> We acquire languaguage from out parents and caregivers only

> People used to speak better English than they do now

> Redundancy has no place in English

> English is easier for children to learn than Chinese

>

> Thanks and Cheers,

> Thomas L. Clark

> tlc[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]nevada.edu

>



Tom,



I think what you are looking for is in the first or second article in

a recent edition of Rosa, Escholz, and Clark's _Language_ reader,

St. Martin's Press. In fact, I know it is, as I used it for an exercise

in my Intro Ling this fall. I simply don't have the book to hand here at

home.



Terry



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