Once upon a time an educated person was expected to know how Latin's plurals worked, and so we have a bias towards knowing Latin's rules.
– and somehow you're expected to know how to navigate your way around it.
He says that while good protestants were expected to know how to read the holy scriptures for themselves, catholics were explicitly discouraged from reading the bible.
In her mother's time, for a decent marriage prospect, young women were expected to know how to knit and cook.
By the end of reception (age four or five), they'll be expected to know how to form simple sentences, sometimes use punctuation, and write in different forms such as "lists, stories and instructions".
In training to become engineers, they were expected to know how to dismantle, reassemble, repair, maintain, diagnose and verbally explain to a 4-year-old child how a steam engine worked, and, in the new post-steam era, how a diesel worked, too.
Harvard's literature from the 1869-70 school year noted that incoming freshmen were expected to know how to write in Latin and Greek "with the accents" and needed to demonstrate knowledge of "the whole of Virgil," Caesar's Commentaries, and Felton's Greek Reader or comparable texts.
After all, this was only the second time a match in which they'd featured had gone to penalties and with just one defeat, to the Germans, under their belt, their players couldn't possibly be expected to know how rubbish history would prove them to be at this particular discipline.
But not all researchers can be expected to know how to apply such technologies to their particular work, and not everyone has direct access to them.
