Context Sensitive Grammar

Famous quotes containing the words context, sensitive and/or grammar:

    “Parents are led to believe that they must be consistent, that is, always respond to the same issue the same way. Consistency is good up to a point but your child also needs to understand context and subtlety . . . much of adult life is governed by context: what is appropriate in one setting is not appropriate in another; the way something is said may be more important than what is said. . . .”
    —Stanley I. Greenspan (20th century)

    “Pity in a man of knowledge seems almost laughable, like sensitive hands on a cyclops.”
    —Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)

    “Grammar is the logic of speech, even as logic is the grammar of reason.”
    —Richard Chenevix Trench (1807–1886)