The truth seems to be that they [teachers of grammar] were victims of a mighty hoax, one of those true belly-rumbling impostures which a workaday world can but seldom afford.
Charlton LairdCivilization could not exist until there was written language, because without written language no generation could bequeath to succeeding generations anything but its simpler findings.
Charlton LairdQuite naturally, scholars assumed that Latin grammar was not merely Latin grammar, but that it was grammar itself. They borrowed it and made the most of it.
Charlton LairdLanguage is a living thing. It must survive in men's minds and on their tongues if it survives at all.
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