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I can see that, Nautikos. Whole pages as opposed to half-pages and
illustrated pages and pages with maps and, oh, my god, I can't think under this kind of pressure!!! So how am I supposed to READ?!!! (That about sum it up?)
posted by
saul_relative
on March 12, 2007 at 4:57 PM
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Saul
Scary? Yes. Does it surprise me? No. By the way, in this case the assignment may have triggered a kind of chain-reaction - the shock of possibly having to read
20 whole pages in only
one week may have caused a short circuit in the arithmetic department...
posted by
Nautikos
on March 12, 2007 at 2:08 PM
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No doubt, JBird. I have a tutee at the moment who is learning English. I
cautioned him in our last session to beware of "lazy" English (he thought that term was amusing) and corrected his adoption of saying "breffust". Coming down from Richmond, where almost everyone pronounces it like that, I was used to it, but told him that that was not how it was supposed to be pronounced, so I wrote it down and broke it down for him. He got it.
posted by
saul_relative
on March 9, 2007 at 9:45 PM
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funny
Your story reminds me of a "supervisor" I have at work who loves to voice his frustration over how stupid everyone else is, and yet he spells like a third grader and he pronounces words wrong all the time, such as breakfast, which comes out of his mouth sounding like "bref-tiss." Fear not though, he's not going for an advanced degree anywhere. It probably doesn't help that he never finished high school and was banned from every school in his county for being a delinquent. Haha, I'd love to hear him pronounce and spell that word. That'd give me another post, for sure.
posted by
JBird79
on March 9, 2007 at 8:29 PM
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Behold the power of mathematics in the wrong hands
That made me giggle, eheehee. XD
posted by
NightMajik
on March 8, 2007 at 9:56 PM
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And what do we tell them when we find nothing on the CAT-scan, GEPRUITT?
posted by
saul_relative
on March 7, 2007 at 9:56 PM
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Not another student, RI. Say it ain't so...
posted by
saul_relative
on March 7, 2007 at 9:53 PM
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Saul Relative
Ummm ... sorta like this student might need his head examined?!!! Huh?
posted by
GEPRUITT
on March 7, 2007 at 8:57 PM
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saul..lol...this sounds like one of the lines I've posted in my humor blog
under student bloopers..
..very scary..
..
posted by
Rumor
on March 7, 2007 at 8:54 PM
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Indeed, RaeS.
posted by
saul_relative
on March 7, 2007 at 8:43 PM
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Oh my...:)
Feel worried..
posted by
Katray2
on March 7, 2007 at 8:04 PM
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Or logic, Whacky...
posted by
saul_relative
on March 7, 2007 at 7:59 PM
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Good thing it isn't math!
Yikes!A smile
from Bo =^..^= and a rose
from me!
posted by
Whacky
on March 7, 2007 at 7:57 PM
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Sometimes common sense is a handy thing to have lying around your
brain...
posted by
saul_relative
on March 7, 2007 at 7:57 PM
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Sounds like a Math class or two or three is in order.
posted by
1TimeSoldier
on March 7, 2007 at 7:53 PM
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