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> Who the hell would write prose by making all the verbs blue, the nouns red, and the adverbs green (or something to that effect).

Slightly off topic, but I think doing this could actually be useful for learning languages, especially highly inflected ones (if you extend the color coding to account for gender, case, etc.).



The farm was used to produce produce.

He could lead if he would get the lead out.

A bass was painted on the head of a bass drum.

That that that that boy said is not that that that that boy said.

Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo.


That's what I remember doing in primary school when we were learning french grammar, and later with ESL. Is this not a common teaching tool in other languages/school systems ?




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