Cartoons From 1940s Grammar Books

Posted by Alex in Cartoon & Comic on January 2, 2008 at 4:24 am


Billy Mavreas of yesway blog has a neat collection of some wonderful illustrations by Lloyd Scott for Using Our Language, a 1942 grammar book for fifth and eight graders.

This one below is my favorite, just because it has chimps:

Who knew grammar could be this much fun? Lots more here: Link 1 | 2


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5 comments to "Cartoons From 1940s Grammar Books"

  1. Sid Morrison
    January 2nd, 2008 at 8:19 am

    Nowadays, kids are taught that grammar isn't very important, as long as they are "creative". Spelling is optional as well. Why constrain oneself to teh rules of othography? With writers like Cormac McCarthy earning the accolades they do, it's no wonder...

  2. Q
    January 2nd, 2008 at 11:13 am

    If you speak poorly or use the language incorrectly you need only call it ebonics and its O.K.

  3. billy
    January 2nd, 2008 at 12:04 pm

    Q, that's an idiotic thing to think.
    2008, for your intellectual growth.

  4. Sid Morrison
    January 2nd, 2008 at 1:09 pm

    Q-
    You are so dated! You can't call it ebonics anymore!

    It is now the "dialect of African American Vernacular English", which is of course, a much more scholarly designation. If it sounds better, it must be better, right?

    It keeps changing names every couple of years in an effort to give it some legitimacy: "Black English", "Black English Vernacular", or in my day just "Jive".

    Word.

  5. a2
    January 3rd, 2008 at 2:52 am

    Ah, if only they still teach grammar today with these ...


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