ST: High School English

[Aikouka]

Much worse self-ownage, imho.

I said English, not vocabulary . Actually, my vocabulary isn't that bad, but mixing up words isn't terribly uncommon for me. What is the word I'm thinking of though... should be similar to affluent if I ended up mixing them up.

Although, I really don't give a shit if you prefer "I'd" to be "I had" where I use it as "I would." Contractions are designed for lazy people (i.e. me) and why would I want to be lazy with less characters? That's just silly .

EDIT:

Although, I really don't think you're one to talk much about grammar, Perky... I do recall our last "discussion" on the topic ended with you unable to provide a sliver of proof for your own argument. Whatever senile sort of dribble it was... I can't be troubled to remember.

 

[destrekor]

lol, yeah, definitely

(i was gonna type "definately," but i didn't think people would get the humor)

well, irregardless, that point is mute.

 

[eits]

I said English, not vocabulary . Actually, my vocabulary isn't that bad, but mixing up words isn't terribly uncommon for me. What is the word I'm thinking of though... should be similar to affluent if I ended up mixing them up.

Although, I really don't give a shit if you prefer "I'd" to be "I had" where I use it as "I would." Contractions are designed for lazy people (i.e. me) and why would I want to be lazy with less characters? That's just silly .

EDIT:

Although, I really don't think you're one to talk much about grammar, Perky... I do recall our last "discussion" on the topic ended with you unable to provide a sliver of proof for your own argument. Whatever senile sort of dribble it was... I can't be troubled to remember.

you mean "why'd"

 

[eits]

well, irregardless, that point is mute.

winner

 

[Aikouka]

you mean "why'd"

I would've thought you'd pick up on the lack of a comma before the "and" more than anything. I noticed I left it out, but I could care less (), so I just left it like that.

The correct word is fluent here, not affluent.

That word does fit, but I swear I was still thinking of something that began with an 'a'. I've been playing too much Words with Friends on my phone haha.

EDIT:

Although, I do find it interesting that you pinpoint what really just serves as a worthless introduction to my post, and just really ignore the rest of it . Nothing of merit in there to comment on?

 

[Flipped Gazelle]

well, irregardless, that point is mute.

!

lol, yeah, definitely

(i was gonna type "definately," but i didn't think people would get the humor)

I once had someone "correct" me for typing, "definitely". :\

 

[destrekor]

winner

What I find more shocking, is my firefox spell-check ignored "irregardless."

I'm sorry, we can probably blame my generation too.

 

[Perknose]

Although, I really don't give a shit if you prefer "I'd" to be "I had" where I use it as "I would."

Not ONE of those three -- I'd, I had, or I would -- fit grammatically, you unbelievable nitwit.

I do recall our last "discussion" on the topic ended with you unable to provide a sliver of proof for your own argument. Whatever senile sort of dribble it was... I can't be troubled to remember.

MORE hilarious self ownage from our new forum idiot. :awe:

 

[Aikouka]

Aww, Perky... you hurt my feelings .

Now stop muddying up this guy's topic .

 

[Perknose]

Aww, Perky... you hurt my feelings .

Now stop muddying up this guy's topic .

The funniest thing is, this truculent dimbulb will remember this thread as his having won several arguments . . . you know . . . because he's so affluent in English! :awe:

 

[eits]

Not ONE of those three -- I'd, I had, or I would -- fit grammatically, you unbelievable nitwit.



MORE hilarious self ownage from our new forum idiot. :awe:

easy, easy, man... you're starting to cross the line of teasing to being an asshole.

but it is pretty funny.

 

[F1N3ST]

Having recently completed high school, yes. But, the entire high school curriculum is a joke, I passed with little to no effort, and I truly cannot see how retards manage to fail. It's sad how stupid most of the people I know are.

My favorite classes in HS were the computer classes....D:

I took BST A-C, Digital Photography (Photoshop), Computer Programming, CAD, Advanced Cad, uhhh I don't know, I feel like that's it.

 

[MJinZ]

I would've thought you'd pick up on the lack of a comma before the "and" more than anything. I noticed I left it out, but I could care less (), so I just left it like that.



That word does fit, but I swear I was still thinking of something that began with an 'a'. I've been playing too much Words with Friends on my phone haha.

EDIT:

Although, I do find it interesting that you pinpoint what really just serves as a worthless introduction to my post, and just really ignore the rest of it . Nothing of merit in there to comment on?

I scanned your wall of text and zeroed in on the area where you put a smiley. This probably took me all of three seconds.

I ignored the rest of it because I can not read walls of text. Usually, they are so badly written that it obscures any intelligent content, if it had any to begin with.

 

[F1N3ST]

Oh, and PE is only mandatory for 2/3 a year >_< and Advanced PE, I'm not sure how many years we can take that.

 

[MJinZ]

What I find more shocking, is my firefox spell-check ignored "irregardless."

I'm sorry, we can probably blame my generation too.

Irregardless is probably now an entry in the dictionary from common misuse.

 

[Aikouka]

I scanned your wall of text and zeroed in on the area where you put a smiley. This probably took me all of three seconds.

I ignored the rest of it because I can not read walls of text. Usually, they are so badly written that it obscures any intelligent content, if it had any to begin with.

Haha, well... I guess the cliffs would be:

1) Teachers made me read boring books I had no interest in.
2) Got to the point where parents had to note that I read the required chapters.
3) Only book I enjoyed was one I chose myself.
4) Might be better if teachers gave more reading options (based on genres, etc)

 

[F1N3ST]

Dear lord, I didn't even see the wall of text on the first page, kill it with fire!

 

[LTC8K6]

My cell texts are in correct and complete English. It irritates people.

 

[eits]

My cell texts are in correct and complete English. It irritates people.

mine too. punctuation and everything.

it irritates me when i don't know if someone completely grasps what i'm trying to text them, so i make sure by doing it properly, with correct spelling and punctuation.

 

[Aikouka]

mine too. punctuation and everything.

it irritates me when i don't know if someone completely grasps what i'm trying to text them, so i make sure by doing it properly, with correct spelling and punctuation.

I don't worry as much about punctuation... mostly because I hate typing on my iPhone :\. But it's alright I guess... definitely doesn't make me seem too affluent .

 

[InflatableBuddha]

My high school required 5 years of English (Grades 8-12). However, the quality of many of my classmates' assignments was appalling even in my senior year.

As for PE, it was only required from Grades 8-10, and few people took it seriously. I thought Armageddon had arrived when one of the teachers informed me that they had to reduce the standard 12-minute run to 5 minutes because too many students were unable to complete the run.

Ten years on, I'd be scared to even contemplate the physical and linguistic aptitude of today's high school students.

Edit: I'm loving Perky flexing his linguistic acumen in this thread :thumbsup:.

 

[mrjminer]

fail for wordiness in the first sentence and not using a semicolon or period to break it up.

I think I did pretty good for the internet

One note about books... one reason you might have read a book you thought was boring was because they're known to include everything necessary for your success. A typical curriculum will have a couple of canonical books and a couple of the teacher's choice (discussed as a department, of course, but I don't think problems with a teacher's choosing usually occurs). This is done because it's a lot easier to have at least a few recognized books per grade level that can be used to generically teach most of the information, ensuring that everyone enters the next grade level (hopefully) with an expected set of skills. Basically, it makes it a lot easier for teachers to make references back to previous books the students have read and let's the teacher have a little better idea of where they did / should have learned a specific skill.

As far as them being boring, you really have to have given the books an honest chance; it's easy to look at a book like Great Expectations and say to yourself, "WTF is this guy talking about... his last name starts with 'DICK'...man, this sucks," then just skim through it a bit or let your mentality ruin the book for you. You'll probably find that you can go back and read some of the stuff you hated in high school and realize you like it now, too. Of course, that's no guarantee :O

 

[Sea Moose]

I think I did pretty good for the internet

One note about books... one reason you might have read a book you thought was boring was because they're known to include everything necessary for your success. A typical curriculum will have a couple of canonical books and a couple of the teacher's choice (discussed as a department, of course, but I don't think problems with a teacher's choosing usually occurs). This is done because it's a lot easier to have at least a few recognized books per grade level that can be used to generically teach most of the information, ensuring that everyone enters the next grade level (hopefully) with an expected set of skills. Basically, it makes it a lot easier for teachers to make references back to previous books the students have read and let's the teacher have a little better idea of where they did / should have learned a specific skill.

As far as them being boring, you really have to have given the books an honest chance; it's easy to look at a book like Great Expectations and say to yourself, "WTF is this guy talking about... his last name starts with 'DICK'...man, this sucks," then just skim through it a bit or let your mentality ruin the book for you. You'll probably find that you can go back and read some of the stuff you hated in high school and realize you like it now, too. Of course, that's no guarantee :O

Ok mr smarty pant. What is the deal with shakespear. Why, after 400 years do english teachers still fap over his shit. Seriously that Macbeth thing is uber boring. I like reading, i was always read at a higher standard than most, the assigned books SUCKED DONKEYS BALLS. One flew over the cookoos nest was BORING.

 

[Turin39789]

Ok mr smarty pant. What is the deal with shakespear. Why, after 400 years do english teachers still fap over his shit. Seriously that Macbeth thing is uber boring. I like reading, i was always read at a higher standard than most, the assigned books SUCKED DONKEYS BALLS. One flew over the cookoos nest was BORING.

I really didn't get into shakes in high school, mostly because I was obstinate. I went to college and ultimately ended up with an English degree. My final course, taken as an independent study and ignored until the deadline came up was a survey of Shakespeare. The guy is fucking hilarious, and his language is tight. He has references inside of references, and Romeo and Juliet is filled with dick jokes. More puns per square meter than anything ATOT has accomplished.

 

[rasczak]

Is English taught in high school any more? It's been a while since I attended and it seems that many younger folks have a hard time forming a paragraph or even a proper thought.
The writing seems so jumbled.

I seem to remember that we were required to take 7 "levels" which worked out to 3 - 3.5 years.
My high school was 9th - 12th grade.

I know when I started high school, we had to take 4 years of PE. My junior year, they dropped it to 2.

things have changed in the last 100 years since you've been to high school.