{"version": "1.0", "type": "rich", "title": "Intelligence is being able to diagram verb agreement\nWisdom is knowing if it diagrams right and sounds wrong, it\u2019s wrong", "author_name": "kontextmaschine", "author_url": "https://kontextmaschine.com", "provider_name": "kontextmaschine", "provider_url": "https://kontextmaschine.com", "url": "https://kontextmaschine.com/post/167225808543/", "html": "<p><a href=\"https://ethnianmandarin.tumblr.com/post/167225734748/kontextmaschine-intelligence-is-being-able-to\" class=\"tumblr_blog\" target=\"_blank\">ethnianmandarin</a>:</p>\n\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"/post/167224759063/\" class=\"tumblr_blog\" target=\"_blank\">kontextmaschine</a>:</p>\n\n<blockquote><p>Intelligence is being able to diagram verb agreement</p><p>Wisdom is knowing if it diagrams right and sounds wrong, it\u2019s wrong</p></blockquote>\n\n<p>did u know that teaching \u2018sentence diagrams\u2019 is not part of the school curriculum in the uk. is it just a purestrain dewey thing?</p></blockquote>\n\n<p>We didn\u2019t actually diagram sentences but we were from early on given \u201cDaily Edit\u201d sentences on the blackboard, malformed, to correct in our journals as a warming-up exercise at the beginning of class</p><p>Which was then demonstrated live, and explained w/r/to \u201csubjects\u201d and \u201cpredicates\u201d and \u201cnoun phrases\u201d and shit I never learned cause I just instinctively corrected it to sound <i>right</i></p>"}