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University of Chicago Press. Panini's grammar is the earliest scientific grammar in the world, the earliest extant grammar of any language, and one of the greatest...

Rome, and above grammar. Sigismund, Holy Roman Emperor, at the Council of Constance (1414), to a prelate who objected to his grammar. Don Chaucer, well...

They're good... but they're crass. They need polish... edge. I want to be up there with Manchester Grammar, Haberdasher Askes, Leighton Park... or is that...

Kazimierz Ajdukiewicz (Dec. 12, 1890 – April 12, 1963) was a Polish philosopher and logician, a prominent figure in the Lwów–Warsaw school of logic. He...

on 1 November 2014.  Polandball speaks in an English that mimics Slavic grammar, and confuses the finer points of English usage. Wojciech Oleksiak (9 June...

expressing the matter. Mikhail Lomonosov, Introduction to the Russian Grammar (1755), translation quoted by J. A. Joffe in "Russian Literature", part...

still more to the not unimportant subject of general grammar."' "Connected as those highly polished and refined languages [Sanskrit and Arabic] are with...

that’s just fine with the artist. P 29 Better to wear worn shoes than to polish the boots of shop owner. P 30 Forewarned is forearmed. P 32 Just keep following...

proudly "Pascal" or diffidently "FORTRAN," I know that he is teaching a grammar, a set of semantic rules, and some finished algorithms, leaving the students...

cannot be rendered sensible by the use of wideawake language, cutanddry grammar and goahead plot. Referring to Finnegans Wake in a letter to Harriet Shaw...

French poet, playwright, short story writer, novelist, and art critic of Polish descent who was hugely influential as a Modernist poet and as a spokesman...

Deborah’s case. Now there was in the house a copy of Naimonovitch’s Russian Grammar, which Deborah always studied in her spare moments, but whenever her father...

might explain, and future poets might imitate." In the preface to his Grammar of the Persian Language (1771), Jones again feels the need to plead for...

them. Society can exist only on the basis that there is some amount of polished lying and that no one says exactly what he thinks. "Of Freedom of Speech"...

is their grammar. Numbers were therefore invented by people in the same sense that language, both written and spoken, was invented. Grammar is also an...

expressed in a series of grammatical sentences,” says Murnane, whose views on grammar are firm, even pedantic.) “The quest for the girl from Bendigo Street,”...

literature, and the world's teacher in trigonometry, quadratic equations, grammar, phonetics, Arabian Nights, animal fables, chess, as well as in philosophy...

III, Ch. 13 Those that will combat use and custom by the strict rules of grammar do but jest. 'Tis the sharpness of our mind that gives the edge to our...

bold. You've got to get out there and make those changes, correct that grammar, add those facts, make that language precise, etc., etc. It's OK. It's...

composed in the lowest style of English, without slang or false grammar. If you were to polish it, you would at once destroy the reality of the vision. For...