Latin verbal system: how perfect and aorist joined in the new perfect?

[Rick Mc Callister]

The students that come into my classes don't even grasp USA Today or Strunk
& White, and many of them are English majors.

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>Quaere: does the spread of the -USA Today- or Strunk & White prose
>styles indicate that the syntax of "classical" English is becoming
>unintelligible to a major segment of contemporary readers?)

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