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maderrThis article amuses me greatly. Elements of it also terrify me.
What terrifies me is the fact that so many students think spellcheck is their friend. Anyone who relies on that for their writing needs a swift kick in in the head.
I'm also annoyed that a teacher was bitching about how it's unfair, b/c We would never want to accept a letter that someone had written on the spur of the moment. If they were applying for a job, you would want to see the best writing.".
Is it just me or is she missing the point entirely? Ye gods no wonder kids are stupid - the teachers are morons. It further dismays me that kids are worried they'll use 'netspeak rather than real speech when writing. Seriously, what are they learning that they think they'll write R U instead 'are you' on a freakin' essay? O_o
I am vastly amused - and gleeful - that they're throwing a timed essay into the SAT. It's about damn time. One of these days people are going to realize that yeah, science and math are teh kool, but it doesn't fucking matter if you don't know that 'teh kool' is hellaciously wrong and that you're better of saying "They're vital."
But what do I know? Every single time I tell people I majored in History, the response is "why did you do that?" So too with my writing "hobby," though that gets a modicum more respect (until it's learned I write fantasy, and worse - slash).
Meh. This hand-written, timed essay will be good for the munchkins. Maybe it'll, you know, force them to learn something.
What terrifies me is the fact that so many students think spellcheck is their friend. Anyone who relies on that for their writing needs a swift kick in in the head.
I'm also annoyed that a teacher was bitching about how it's unfair, b/c We would never want to accept a letter that someone had written on the spur of the moment. If they were applying for a job, you would want to see the best writing.".
Is it just me or is she missing the point entirely? Ye gods no wonder kids are stupid - the teachers are morons. It further dismays me that kids are worried they'll use 'netspeak rather than real speech when writing. Seriously, what are they learning that they think they'll write R U instead 'are you' on a freakin' essay? O_o
I am vastly amused - and gleeful - that they're throwing a timed essay into the SAT. It's about damn time. One of these days people are going to realize that yeah, science and math are teh kool, but it doesn't fucking matter if you don't know that 'teh kool' is hellaciously wrong and that you're better of saying "They're vital."
But what do I know? Every single time I tell people I majored in History, the response is "why did you do that?" So too with my writing "hobby," though that gets a modicum more respect (until it's learned I write fantasy, and worse - slash).
Meh. This hand-written, timed essay will be good for the munchkins. Maybe it'll, you know, force them to learn something.
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Date: 2004-09-01 08:14 am (UTC)Please dear god no... I already have a headache and that's NOT going to help.
Besides.. I had a teacher in the 8th grade tell mom just that... That even though my handwriting and spelling sucked it wouldn't matter since computers and spell check were so common.
You have chatted with me on MSN.. you *know* spellcheck is my friend...
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Date: 2004-09-01 08:26 am (UTC)Dude, you're not that bad. You mistakes are basic ones. I mean grammar more than spelling, anyway. That's where everyone fucks up, as the Grammar Nazi will tell you when she appears.
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Date: 2004-09-01 09:58 am (UTC)2) Spelling mistakes are normal. I keep typing "you're" instead of "your" and smacking myself upside the head before changing it. So?
One thing word-processors are good for though... When I hand-write things, I have a tendency to miss out words like "the" etc when I'm trying to grasp the idea and my words aren't being put down fast enough, and word-processors can catch those. When I proof my own work, I tend to fill those in without actually seeing them. -_-;;; Had that happen several times in a couple of major exams before.
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Date: 2004-09-01 10:04 am (UTC)I do that your/you're thing all the time - which is really bad. Maybe I should start smacking myself. But that's what you're for XP Smacking me, I mean. If anyone knows my mistakes, it would be my betas.
I do that all the time. Leave out 'the', 'is', etc. Trying to read what I've handwritten is like trying to crack some really obscure code. I am eternally grateful for computers; w/out them I could not be a writer.
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Date: 2004-09-01 01:17 pm (UTC)meh
My handwriting is determined by the day and my mood. I've have somewhere betweent 8 and 10 different forms of lettering depending on how I feel and "what the weather's like" (so to speak). It makes for interesting reviews--yeah right--later in the semester. heh
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Date: 2004-09-01 01:26 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-09-01 08:40 pm (UTC)Mmm, me too. And that's one reason why I never beta my own work unless I can FORCE myself to read really slow. And I have this tendency to murmur to myself when I beta now. -_-;;;;
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Date: 2004-09-01 01:20 pm (UTC)Grammar Check is one of my favorite forms of entertainment.
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Date: 2004-09-01 01:24 pm (UTC)Ye gods, I want to stab it when it does that loop thing. I mean seriously, wtf is microsoft paying the genuises that are the cause of that?
Masochist
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Date: 2004-09-01 02:37 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-09-01 02:43 pm (UTC)FREAK CHILD.
Who the fuck does that?
...What kind of sentences get it?
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Date: 2004-09-01 10:07 am (UTC)Oh. thanks so much. XP The essay isn't the only thing that's a change. The math is getting harder, damnit! Harder! That's my beef with them changing the SAT. As horrified as I am that people rely on spell check so much, I'm way more concerned on whether or not I'll be ready for that damn math.
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Date: 2004-09-01 10:57 am (UTC)Yeah, the math ate my soul when I took it >_< I made like 720 verbal, my math was 490
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Date: 2004-09-01 01:13 pm (UTC)Yeah. All the on the spot writing they make us do, tell me they aren't looking for something there. Well thought-out and planned my ass. They're looking for ready and immediate knowlegde not a 100 page thesis or disertation.
Those are degree audits. On the spot essays are tests of learning. What do you already know without having to research? How easily can you interpret/percieve the situation on your own--without back-up and supplementary sources?
Point. I wanna cookie.
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Date: 2004-09-01 01:22 pm (UTC)What kind? I'll make S take me to the store for the stuff and make you some.
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Date: 2004-09-01 01:48 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-09-01 02:44 pm (UTC)Snickerdoodles and chocolate chip it is! w00t! double w00t!
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Date: 2004-09-01 02:38 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-09-01 01:40 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-09-01 02:45 pm (UTC)The test is way overrated. It's the fashion for a lot school knows to not require it, b/c they "look for other, more important things" or some such. My school didn't require them, I just did it for the hell of it.
Guess what's wrong with this sentence...
Date: 2004-09-01 05:46 pm (UTC)And to think, you were doing so well. Oh, the despair.
Re: Guess what's wrong with this sentence...
Date: 2004-09-01 06:09 pm (UTC)*wince* Wow did I butcher that. *smacks self*
NUH UH!
Date: 2004-09-01 01:42 pm (UTC)Damn standardized tests. They make me so angry.
Re: NUH UH!
Date: 2004-09-01 02:48 pm (UTC)Huh. I would have thought you'd be good at them. A whole several minutes to make up shit about a random topic seemed your educational cup of tea. I guess I was looking at it the wrong way.
Re: NUH UH!
Date: 2004-09-01 04:10 pm (UTC)I have this weird psycological thing about words.
And also I hate writing things by hand because my hand can't keep up with my brain and then I forget what the sentence was supposed to say halfway through, except that it was a really good sentence.
Yeah... I guess I'm just stubborn and ridiculous. But whatever.
Re: NUH UH!
Date: 2004-09-01 04:30 pm (UTC)Nah, that actually makes plenty of sense. At least, I know how frustrating it can be to made to hoop jump *and* how slow writing by hand is.
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Date: 2004-09-01 06:20 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-09-01 01:51 pm (UTC)But I actually have to write an original research proposal this fall, and I think it will be interesting to see how many people tank it the first go round. I hate spellcheck though, because with a lot of technical words, it just goes 'wtf' on me.
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Date: 2004-09-01 02:51 pm (UTC)You are indeed an exception. Keeps me hoping the rest of your brethren will come around.
Proposals aren't that hard. I would think the full on paper would be more difficult.
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Date: 2004-09-01 03:24 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-09-01 08:42 pm (UTC)"Biopsychosocial" and "psychoneuroimmodulation" were just a few of the words they were attempting to nitpick with me when I typed up my bloody essay. :P
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Date: 2004-09-01 08:43 pm (UTC)psychoneuroimmodulation
O_o
Who the heck coms up with a word like that? I read that in your paper and I was like *blink blink*
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Date: 2004-09-01 08:50 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-09-01 08:45 pm (UTC)no subject
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