Word: error
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Communists in Korea announced that they were ready to make important concessions to get a truce; 7) in Austria and in East Germany there was a switch from military to civilian control; 8) the unexpected and damaging June 17 riots in East Germany were followed by confession of error and a promise to make life easier for East Germany; 9) in Latvia and the Ukraine, Communist Party shake-ups took place...
Quintilian Dixit . . . According to Sweet, today's Latin teachers are guilty of one of two errors. Error 1 is that they try to do as the Romans did, falling for some advice from old Quintilian (1st century) that "the children should begin by learning to decline nouns and conjugate verbs." By this method, pupils spend arduous hours memorizing rules and words, just as their predecessors did in Rome. The big trouble, says Sweet, is that the Roman youngsters already spoke Latin, while modern students...
...Error 2 goes to the opposite extreme: it sidetracks grammar in favor of sight reading. But the reading is usually made too easy, e.g., texts religiously follow a single sentence structure (subject-object-verb), until students get the idea that they can identify all words by their positions. Actually, the Romans identified by endings. As far as meaning went, it made little difference to them whether a sentence read Canis puellam videt, Puellam cants videt, Canis videt puellam, Puellam videt canis, Videt canis puellam or Videt puellam canis. It all meant: "The dog sees the girl...
...Cockneys. Ever the perfectionist, he once borrowed a chisel to set right a grammatical error on his grandfather-in-law's tombstone. But he found it harder to meet the recurrent agony of writing: "A hundred pages more, and this cursed book is flung out from me." Some days he had "the strength of 20,000 cockneys"; on others he was "sunk as in tropical oppression" with a "base, underhand desire to lie down in everlasting leaden sleep." Sometimes the limp writing hand he held out for Jane Carlyle to pat was only slapped, and Carlyle would whimper...
...Other Request? In Birmingham, Ala., after petitioning city officials to pave their street, three residents of 61st Street South were informed that, due to a surveyor's error, their homes had been built in what was technically the street, and they would have to move their houses, whether they wanted paving...