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Thread #106570 Message #2207797
Posted By: Amos
03-Dec-07 - 04:28 PM
Thread Name: BS: Is Your Grammar Up To Date?
Subject: RE: BS: Is Your Grammar Up To Date?
One of our Victorian (or thereabouts) Presidents -- I forget which -- was capable of reading in English while doing simultaneous translation into written Greek with his right hand, and written Latin with his left hand, one pen in each. Or so I have been told. This is the kind of mental acuity and discipline we need in tomorrow's thinkers.