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A Picture of Language: The Fading Art of Diagramming Sentences

• anaphor 11y ago
  Reminds me of this post on Language Log (they actually have a bunch) on why sentence diagramming is obsolete http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=4568 http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=4568
• TazeTSchnitzel 11y ago
  Fading art in schools, perhaps, but still done plenty in the field of linguistics :)
  • NoGravitas 11y ago
    The kind of sentence diagramming done in schools really looks nothing like the syntax trees used in formal linguistics, though. It's about 100 years obsolete, for one thing. The Language Log article another commentator posted gets at that. Also the Wikipedia article on [Parse Trees][0] is a good intro. [0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parse_tree https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parse_tree
    • TazeTSchnitzel 11y ago
      That Wikipedia article is about the linguistic kind. I assume the stuff in schools is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sentence_diagram https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sentence_diagram ? These are... weird.