To: shezza
" let's ask the infamous question, "Is our children learning?" " let's ask the infamous question, "Is our children learning?" you betcha!
6 posted on
02/01/2006 6:02:58 AM PST by
camle
(keep your mind open and somebody will fill it full of something for you.)
To: camle
ROFL, didn't catch that the first time!
8 posted on
02/01/2006 6:05:04 AM PST by
Chanticleer
(May you be gruntled and combobulated in 2006.)
To: camle
I thought that was pretty funny too - I still wonder whether it was a deliberate attempt at sarcasm or some staffer of townhall.com being grammar-challenged.
15 posted on
02/01/2006 6:18:08 AM PST by
cinives
(On some planets what I do is considered normal.)
To: camle
RE: "Is our children learning?"
If "our children" is meant to act as a collective noun in a singular case, then I supposed the sentence is grammatically correct as written. e.g. The committee is united. vs. The committee are divided.
On the other hand, the author wrote, "let's ask the infamous question", implying someone made this error and the author is purposely employing the quote as a jab.
32 posted on
02/01/2006 9:29:54 AM PST by
yevgenie
To: camle; cinives
Re: "Is our children learning?"
http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2001/03/20010330-1.html
BR> The reference is to a quote by Pres. Bush captured in a book by Paul Begala.
33 posted on
02/01/2006 9:36:24 AM PST by
yevgenie
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