Dufus Award of the Day
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I had an English professor in college who hates passive verbs. We had to do a report on our school computer use policy with no passive verbs. I have tried not using passive verbs in my daily conversations but I was told that I talk 'too smart.' (This was from my boss at Citibank. I can't believe I was basically asked to 'dumb it down.')
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leckey wrote:
'dumb it down
very common reaction. Most "common" communication is recommended to be no higher than 7th grade level, and should only rarely exceed 6th grade level. The average populace of the USA is considered to use no higher than 8th grade English on a day to day basis, so staying at 7th or 6th grade level gets you the most bang for your buck in communication.
_________________________ Asu no koto o ieba, tenjo de nezumi ga warau. Talk about things of tomorrow and the mice in the ceiling laugh. (Japanese Proverb)
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leckey wrote:
'dumb it down
very common reaction. Most "common" communication is recommended to be no higher than 7th grade level, and should only rarely exceed 6th grade level. The average populace of the USA is considered to use no higher than 8th grade English on a day to day basis, so staying at 7th or 6th grade level gets you the most bang for your buck in communication.
_________________________ Asu no koto o ieba, tenjo de nezumi ga warau. Talk about things of tomorrow and the mice in the ceiling laugh. (Japanese Proverb)
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Have you seen the show on Fox 'Are you Smarter than a Fifth Grader?' SCARY.
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leckey wrote:
Have you seen the show on Fox 'Are you Smarter than a Fifth Grader?' SCARY.
I have not had TV for the last 3 months, and I only heard about it recently. So I have not seen it, only heard about it. I will get to see it soon, it is one of my fiancee's son's favorites. I just moved to where I can receive TV over air, so I need to see what channels I have.
_________________________ Asu no koto o ieba, tenjo de nezumi ga warau. Talk about things of tomorrow and the mice in the ceiling laugh. (Japanese Proverb)
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leckey wrote:
Have you seen the show on Fox 'Are you Smarter than a Fifth Grader?' SCARY.
I have not had TV for the last 3 months, and I only heard about it recently. So I have not seen it, only heard about it. I will get to see it soon, it is one of my fiancee's son's favorites. I just moved to where I can receive TV over air, so I need to see what channels I have.
_________________________ Asu no koto o ieba, tenjo de nezumi ga warau. Talk about things of tomorrow and the mice in the ceiling laugh. (Japanese Proverb)
I can see where her son would like it. He probably feels like a genius compared to the adult contestants. I doubt they will ever have a programmer or software engineer on the show. We're definately smarter than a 5th grader (even though I can't spell as well as one anymore).
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What is "idiot" in Klingon?
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less sarcastically, if the kid decides to become a linguistics major he'll be in better shape than most of his classmates. Klingon's often used as a language that none of the students know to put everyone on equal footing. :rolleyes: IMO if that was the goal they should require the pdh's to each do several years of fieldwork in the boonies to learn an undocumented and endangered language and use that when teaching Language None Of The Students Speak 101. This would have the side effect of actually making the the profs do something useful before getting their tenured sinecures. :laugh:
-- You have to explain to them [VB coders] what you mean by "typed". their first response is likely to be something like, "Of course my code is typed. Do you think i magically project it onto the screen with the power of my mind?" --- John Simmons / outlaw programmer
Strangely enough what you describe ties into what my dad is doing for his phd thesis. Part of his work was taking hundreds of cassette tapes recorded many years ago with recorded stories in a nearly dead native Canadian language in the Yukon and going back to the area to translate them with the help of some of the last native speakers. His thesis isn't actually about the language itself but it's astounding how many languages are on the brink of extinction or recently become extinct.
"110%" - it's the new 70%
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I've decided to grant* to d'Armond Speers[^]. Why, you ask? From the wiki page: "Dr. Speers is known for having undertaken the endeavour to raise his child bilingually in English and Klingon; Speers spoke in Klingon and his wife in English." According to the article he kept this up for multiple *years*. W. T. F.?!?! :wtf::wtf::wtf: *rather generously if I must say so myself :)
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Jim Crafton wrote:
"Dr. Speers is known for having undertaken the endeavour to raise his child bilingually in English and Klingon; Speers spoke in Klingon and his wife in English."
Kids? What woman found him acceptable?!?!
-- Russell Morris Morbo: "WINDMILLS DO NOT WORK THAT WAY!"
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What an outrage! My Trekkie sensibilities are highly offended! :rolleyes:
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Jim Crafton wrote:
"Dr. Speers is known for having undertaken the endeavour to raise his child bilingually in English and Klingon; Speers spoke in Klingon and his wife in English."
Kids? What woman found him acceptable?!?!
-- Russell Morris Morbo: "WINDMILLS DO NOT WORK THAT WAY!"
That was my initial thought as well.
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I can see where her son would like it. He probably feels like a genius compared to the adult contestants. I doubt they will ever have a programmer or software engineer on the show. We're definately smarter than a 5th grader (even though I can't spell as well as one anymore).
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leckey wrote:
He probably feels like a genius compared to the adult contestants
He worries when he gets below a 100% at school. Once he discovered extra credit his grades typically stay above 100% in private education. He's smarter than me (of course there are days I feel that is not difficult). :) But he and I have a similar memory storage, so he struggles more in the same areas I do... like spelling. :)
_________________________ Asu no koto o ieba, tenjo de nezumi ga warau. Talk about things of tomorrow and the mice in the ceiling laugh. (Japanese Proverb)
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less sarcastically, if the kid decides to become a linguistics major he'll be in better shape than most of his classmates. Klingon's often used as a language that none of the students know to put everyone on equal footing. :rolleyes: IMO if that was the goal they should require the pdh's to each do several years of fieldwork in the boonies to learn an undocumented and endangered language and use that when teaching Language None Of The Students Speak 101. This would have the side effect of actually making the the profs do something useful before getting their tenured sinecures. :laugh:
-- You have to explain to them [VB coders] what you mean by "typed". their first response is likely to be something like, "Of course my code is typed. Do you think i magically project it onto the screen with the power of my mind?" --- John Simmons / outlaw programmer
