suprunp
Senior Member
- Joined
- Apr 27, 2011
- Member Type
- Student or Learner
- Native Language
- Ukrainian
- Home Country
- Ukraine
- Current Location
- Ukraine
‘He’s had things too easy for him. I’ve been much too indulgent. There’s never been a thing he wanted that I haven’t given him. I’ll learn him.’
(W.S. Maugham; The Alien Corn)
Would everyone understand me right if I said, for example: "I used to learn universal grammar when I was a Visiting Professor of Linguistics at Oxford University"?
(I've got some doubts that I could ever say so, though...)
Thanks.
(W.S. Maugham; The Alien Corn)
learn
now chiefly substandard : teach
Webster's Third New International Dictionary of the English Language
Would everyone understand me right if I said, for example: "I used to learn universal grammar when I was a Visiting Professor of Linguistics at Oxford University"?
(I've got some doubts that I could ever say so, though...)
Thanks.