Grammar Bigotry

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From: AB04000
Date: Fri, 27 Mar 1992 18:10

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I've got to agree with Michael Roberts on this.  We're going to be
a lot more useful to our students when we start listening to them --
making what they say matter -- and attending less to how they're
saying things.  If we can make them feel like we're a group worth
belonging to, they'll want to belong.  One of the ways -- perhaps the
essential way -- is when they start finding ways to sound and write
more like us.  If I want to join a conversation, I've got to speak
the language -- but the wanting comes well before the speaking.
     Jim Reither

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