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...Workshop is so concerned with setting a bad example, they should check out Cookie’s grammar first. Of course, they would justify this the same way they justify Elmo’s speech patterns: as the FAQ on their website claims, “Like most three-and-a-half-year-olds, [Elmo] doesn’t always have the mature skills or knowledge to speak ‘proper’ English.” Apparently this reasoning isn’t good enough to support Cookie’s snack-filled fun. To tell...
SWEET HOME COUNTRY GRAMMAR...
Soillis adopted this work ethic during his childhood in Greece. After finishing grammar school, he began to learn the craft of making and repairing shoes while working in a shop in Logganiko, a small village near Sparta. After three months there—his father paid the owner of the shop in olive oil in exchange for his son’s apprenticeship—Soillis left his childhood home...
...studies about girls' and boys' achievements in same-sex grammar schools are inconclusive. But if it turns out that targeting sex differences through education is helpful, there are certainly many ways to carry it out. Says Giedd: "The ability for change is phenomenal. That's what the brain does best." A small but charming 2004 study published in Nature found that people who learned how to juggle increased the gray matter in their brains in certain locations. When they stopped juggling, the new gray matter vanished. A similar structural change appears to occur in people who learn a second language...
...German punctuation; The Crüe era of sex, drugs and little rock and roll came to an end in the early ’90s with the departure of drummer and Playböy sugardaddy Tommy Lee. But the band was so proud of this infusion of improper grammar into the metal world that their new greatest hits album, Red, White and Crüe, bears the patriotic tagline of: “One nation under umlauts...