🎭 Culture 22h ago · Clellan Coe

Sweet Success

The American Scholar
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When discussing a particular kind of English usage, I often tell my students that there are no rules. You just have to internalize the usage. Exposure is the means. You build instinct. And yet, I have students whose instinct remains underdeveloped after years of study, and others who seem to know the intricacies from the get-go. How is this possible? Because instinct really is instinct, I’d like to conclude. Student A was born knowing. Student B is a parrot, repeating words without feeling, ofte

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