But Steiner quickly assures us that by "grammar" he does not mean, well, grammar, but rather "the articulate organization of perception, reflection and experience, the nerve structure of consciousness when it communicates with itself and with others".
The fact is, well, grammar simply isn't taught in school anymore.
A few years ago, I was invited to present my thoughts on educational management to the staff of a well known grammar school.
At the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, first-year Spanish students are no longer offered a face-to-face class; the university moved all instruction online, despite internal research showing that online students do slightly less well in grammar and speaking.
While Dobbs kept himself to himself and got off relatively lightly – seven years younger than his eldest brother, he did well at grammar school, captaining the rugby team, passing his exams with flying colours and eventually winning a place at Christ Church, Oxford – he did not escape the odd thrashing.
After that, she does line editing for me, and once I've satisfied those edits, the manuscript gets passed on to a copy editor, who will send me additional fact-checking sorts of queries as well as grammar fixes.
Turkish is a linguistic cousin of Uyghur, it shares much of its base vocabulary as well as grammar with Uyghur, and Turkish is also the most widely published-on Turkic language in the English-speaking world, Uyghur is not.
He paid for Barber to attend the well-regarded grammar school in Bishop's Stortford and considered having him prepared for a role as a missionary.
I assume that it is the advent of this cultural oddity that account for the allegations of 'cosy frugality' levelled at food blogger Jack Monroe this week; a commentator must have assumed that this well-spoken grammar school girl had simply taken the fetishisation of post-war austerity a little too far.
As a comparison, our task was likely more difficult due to the nature of clinician entered clinical narrative containing abbreviations, acronyms and typographical errors without well-formed grammar or structure.
Early on, a technical vocabulary was built up to deal with Latin, as well as Irish, grammar.
