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Most of the application of Latinate concepts (those systems you mention) to English grammar are pretty faulty. It's what led us down the path to people complain
by scarmig 12y ago
Most of the application of Latinate concepts (those systems you mention) to English grammar are pretty faulty. It's what led us down the path to people complaining about split infinitives, and all that nonsense up with which I refuse to put. It leads to situations that are akin to someone trying really hard to write a Java program in Ruby.
Which isn't to say that learning Latin doesn't improve grammar skills, or push you toward thinking more analytically about language. My argument, though, would be that learning any second language will give you pretty much the same benefit.
5 on AP Latin, here.
- cbd1984 12y agoRight. It's amazing how many people don't realize English is a Germanic language and that despite the fact we absorbed a lot of Romance words from Norman French and other places, we still have a Germanic grammar. (For one thing, our adjectives go before our nouns, not after: We have a "red dog", not a "perro rojo".)