WTF with high school education.
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Originally Posted by UmarS2K,Aug 25 2009, 03:07 PM
I'm really interested in finding out what happened next. 
And then I want to know what happened afterward
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Originally Posted by Spec_Ops2087,Aug 26 2009, 06:11 AM
Did you ever think about the fact that other countries know so many languages because...oh wait every country around them speaks another language and all are close to one another.
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From: Bayside
eye no wat ur talking bout.
Its all over myspace, i'm pretty tired of looking at it.
It bothers me when they are 22-30 years old.
this is off my "myspace" status
"I've been wit my parents da whole freakin day I'm bored now its time 2 hear 4rm my friends so txt me or call me if yall hav da number."
Its all over myspace, i'm pretty tired of looking at it.
It bothers me when they are 22-30 years old.
this is off my "myspace" status
"I've been wit my parents da whole freakin day I'm bored now its time 2 hear 4rm my friends so txt me or call me if yall hav da number."
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From: All up in your inner tubes. Whatcha gonna do sucka?
Originally Posted by txs2knoah,Aug 26 2009, 10:15 PM
It bothers me when they are 22-30 years old.
this is off my "myspace" status
"I've been wit my parents da whole freakin day I'm bored now its time 2 hear 4rm my friends so txt me or call me if yall hav da number."
this is off my "myspace" status
"I've been wit my parents da whole freakin day I'm bored now its time 2 hear 4rm my friends so txt me or call me if yall hav da number."
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From: Longmont, CO
Originally Posted by CKit,Aug 24 2009, 05:46 PM
But the thing that I'm about is the complete misuse of words. Like BREAK vs. BRAKE. Or HEAL vs. HEEL.
It's not laziness, since the number of characters is the same. Is it really just lack of vocabulary? Can you really get out of high school or be in college and not know the difference between BRAKING and BREAKING?
Just my
of the day. Carry on.
about is the complete misuse of words. Like BREAK vs. BRAKE. Or HEAL vs. HEEL.It's not laziness, since the number of characters is the same. Is it really just lack of vocabulary? Can you really get out of high school or be in college and not know the difference between BRAKING and BREAKING?
Just my
of the day. Carry on.Although, could be that a person who doesn't encounter "brake" enough isn't even aware of the different spellings. Which is indeed ignorance traced back to lack of proper education on the matter, I'd say. (And which has absolutely nothing to do with the person's overall intelligence, by the way.)
The break/brake issue might go away if, say, The Art of Racing in the Rain ever becomes required school reading.
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Originally Posted by Elistan,Aug 26 2009, 10:02 PM
One theory is that the brain pathways these people utilize when translating thoughts into written words have been influenced by the audio processing portion of the brain, so two words that sound similar can excite the other word's bit of memory on how to spell the word. And lack on feedback about the wrong and right spelling maintains the ambivalent neural pathways. I wouldn't be surprised if "brake" is an extremely rare word to encounter during school reading. While "break" is possibly much more common? So the one spelling is the reflexive "default," so to say, for the homophones.
Although, could be that a person who doesn't encounter "brake" enough isn't even aware of the different spellings. Which is indeed ignorance traced back to lack of proper education on the matter, I'd say. (And which has absolutely nothing to do with the person's overall intelligence, by the way.)
The break/brake issue might go away if, say, The Art of Racing in the Rain ever becomes required school reading.
Although, could be that a person who doesn't encounter "brake" enough isn't even aware of the different spellings. Which is indeed ignorance traced back to lack of proper education on the matter, I'd say. (And which has absolutely nothing to do with the person's overall intelligence, by the way.)
The break/brake issue might go away if, say, The Art of Racing in the Rain ever becomes required school reading.
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Originally Posted by Sogno,Aug 26 2009, 10:14 AM
Like India & Japan?
