From: "Andy" <as-AT-spelthorne.ac.uk>
Date: Wed, 24 Feb 1999 17:35:41 +0000
Subject: Re:The decline of anarchism




> Andy says about his "didactic"
> 
> > it's a Scottish thing
> 
> Look, I have been Scottish for fifty seven years, 
> which is probably longer than anybody else 
> on this list, and the word "didactic" has never 
> crossed my lips (or even my mind) during 
> all that time. You can't pin this rap on us.

It's a fair cop [!] guv'nr. Scottish is about the only thing I'm not. 
I'm more of a mongrel.

On the other hand, look at George Graham, Alex Ferguson, Bill 
Shankly, Jock Stein etc etc There is a definite didactic tendency in 
there somewhere, and who said it was a pejorative term anyway? 
Shouldn't words like didactic be communally owned?

> > as in the Prime of Miss Jean Brodie.
> 
> Keri raves about what a great film that is.
> But as I have never seen it, there's no point
> in you telling me that "didactic" is like that.
> 
The film's OK. But more to the point, it's set in Scotland.

What course are you doing at Dundee?


_as