I think that we tend to forget that our teachers often frame lessons as absolutes to make a point, either fully intending to modify that stance later on and forgetting to, or assuming that we would realise ourselves that some absolutes aren't quite as absolute as others.

I, too, was told that all adverbs had -ly on the end of them. I worked out early on that this wasn't necessarily the case ...

It was one of the things that triggered my interest in language.


The idiot also known as Capfka ...