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hatten_jc
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Sweden
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 Posted - 12/18/2001 : 08:06:00 [Permalink]
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Hatten_jc, your posts are actually rather easy to read and you seem to be a lucid thinker with a great sense of humor, but I must say some of your phonetic spellings are cracking me up! Please take no offense, I spent a year in Spain so I know how difficult it can be communicating as a non-native speaker. I couldn't begin to understand Swedish; I don't even know the alphabet! Ciao amigo. 
Adventure? Excitement? A Jedi craves not these things. - Silent Bob
If you find my phonetic speeling funy and it make you cracking up then laught and have fun :)
English is a hard languish and i am trying my best.
My skill is slowly geting bether and bether its hard as i have Dysgrafi a form of Dyslexia that only make it hard to write not read. (When i was in School i lern how to read books long before i manage to write)
As a Dysgrafi i see a word as a picture not like how normal individual read.
A normal he read word like R E A D and puts them togheter in his mind to READ i dont do that i read evry word as a picture making my a fast reader with hig understanding of what i am reading but when it come to writing i become unsure and Phonetic spelling is needid.
Among langush Finland is NR 1 in Phonetic simlary A finnish word sound like its speald.
Sweden is nr 5 on that list and English is nr 8 or 9 if i remember correct.
The wors is arabian laungish..
SO when i am using Phonetic spelling i make two big mistake.
1 English is not speald phonetic.
2 Some sounds is pronce difrent in swedis word then they do in English. A and E and I is tre sound that are use werry diffrent in Swedish then in english.
Have a nice day and rest asure i am not offended if by you and to prove i teach you the Swedish Alphabet...
A,B,C,D,E,F,G,H,I,J,K,L,M,N,O,P,Q,R,S,T,U,V,WX,Y,Z,Å,Ä,Ö.
å,Ä,Ö is sound english dont have.. :)
Never underestemate a humans capaity for activ stupity
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Snake
SFN Addict
USA
2511 Posts |
Posted - 12/27/2001 : 10:58:43 [Permalink]
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English is a hard languish and i am trying my best.
Yes, that's right. A damn hard langage. LOL, try being Asian and learning English. My room mate is from Thailand and provides a laugh a day when I listen to his attempt at pronoucing something in English.
However I was born in the USA and still have not mastered it.
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babthrower
New Member
Canada
10 Posts |
Posted - 02/17/2002 : 17:43:22 [Permalink]
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I voted for math because as a kid I was in the gifted kids stream, too. In those days, this is how it worked: you got to skip a grade, and you had to cover the missed year's work on your own time. No teacher help, no resourses other than the textbooks which of course you had to buy. Anyhow, I was pretty dumb, because I slouched along in math, didn't try harder than I needed to, and when the techer stopped checking my homework I stopped doing it. In all other subjects I was able to keep up. I skipped two years. In high school I found math hard (no kidding!) and left math homework till last, so if some didn't get done, math was it. NOW I find myself fascinated by all science, and I can't intelligently assess a lot of what I read about in astronomy and physics because I can't do the math! But I know I can learn whatever I want to about anthropology, history or any other subject.
Just math. BAWWWWWW!
BTW, I don't know whether to laugh or cry when I hear about people writing letters to soap opera actors warning them what the other (villianous) actors are plotting. I'm glad they (the letter-writers) never seem to bother to vote. I wish they could be disenfranchised. But they seem to have their power-arm nevertheless, in the form of pressure groups fomented by their religious leaders.
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Snake
SFN Addict
USA
2511 Posts |
Posted - 02/17/2002 : 23:06:45 [Permalink]
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In high school I found math hard (no kidding!) and left math homework till last, so if some didn't get done, math was it. NOW I find myself fascinated by all science, and I can't intelligently assess a lot of what I read about in astronomy and physics because I can't do the math
I quite high school but kept taking classes in adult school while later on going to Jr. college at the same time. Always wanted to study Algerbra and took a class at the college. Got an 'F', which I was used to getting, but determained not to fail at that I tried again at the adult high school level, got a 'B' the difference being 60 people in the college class and no teacher help, in the night school class, 6 people and a great teacher. Went on to geometry and loved it.
Don't let anyone ever stop you from reaching your goals, not even yourself.
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VVolfe347
New Member
Canada
22 Posts |
Posted - 02/26/2002 : 21:13:27 [Permalink]
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Literature!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
You can learn everything else from it!!!!!!!
Geeeessssssss guys come on!
Dan Foscarini
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Wendy
SFN Regular
USA
614 Posts |
Posted - 02/27/2002 : 16:28:42 [Permalink]
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Literature!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
You can learn everything else from it!!!!!!!
Geeeessssssss guys come on!
Oooooooo, yeah! What he said. That's WAY better than Home Ec. I wanna change my vote.
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Snake
SFN Addict
USA
2511 Posts |
Posted - 02/27/2002 : 17:40:22 [Permalink]
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Literature!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
You can learn everything else from it!!!!!!!
Geeeessssssss guys come on!
Dan Foscarini
Dan,
You are not wrong but where would we be if not for science. I think most people do want the improvements that Man has made through the ages and they didn't get there from Literature.
True, reading great books is very important, I wouldn't be who I am today if it wasn't for Mr. Toad, Peter Pan or Sherlock Holmes (although there is some debate as to whether he is real or not ). In any case learning to understand lifes conditions and how to deal with them from novels and philosophy is helpful but math and science is survival.
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Chippewa
SFN Regular
USA
1496 Posts |
Posted - 03/08/2002 : 18:11:23 [Permalink]
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If your child could only take classes on 1 subject in highschool, what would it be?
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Math is probably best for getting a higher paying job later, in computer tech for example. (I voted for history by the way - mostly to gain admittance to the poll.) Incidentally, Art and Music are what actually help maintain our society as a real "civilization" and I would be proud if my kid leaned in that direction. Math skills wouldn't hurt as something to fall back on.
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Snake
SFN Addict
USA
2511 Posts |
Posted - 03/08/2002 : 20:51:46 [Permalink]
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Math is probably best for getting a higher paying job later, in computer tech for example. (I voted for history by the way - mostly to gain admittance to the poll.) Incidentally, Art and Music are what actually help maintain our society as a real "civilization" and I would be proud if my kid leaned in that direction. Math skills wouldn't hurt as something to fall back on.
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1st of all I don't think you HAVE to vote to comment on anything in this folder, just to let you know.
Next, math is good but if it was me, I wouldn't put money as the reason to learn a subject. Too many people do but IMO, too many people aim for riches for the wrong reasons.
And finally, I totaly agree with you about art and music. Not enough people IMO, understand how important it is to know and understand refined culture.
ps. editorial comment: certainly if they did rap crap wouldn't be such a widely listened to form of expression.
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Computer Org
Skeptic Friend
392 Posts |
Posted - 05/19/2002 : 13:57:12 [Permalink]
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I voted for math (--I'm so happy to be in the majority for once!--), but for reasons no one else listed.
My reasoning was: If you could only teach one subject, it would have to be a subject that could somehow encompass most of, if not all, the other subjects.
First, though most people don't seem to know it, there are many, many fields within the general subject of "mathematics". All kinds of fields!
I would teach math by first teaching the basics of one of the myriad of math-fields (--a couple or few weeks worth--) then embark on practical, applied examples chosen from the other fields of study.
When studing series of numbers (--a really heavy area--), I would say "Now, let's look at Shakespeare's Hamlet and Longfellow Evangeline and try to find various series. We'll test them against a variety of the usual popular series and see if there is any numerical relationship between Shakespeare and Loongfellow.
Within the study of series I would very-easily gather in much of the [European] history of the last several centuries, asking "What historical happenings led this or that mathematician to discover this or that series?"
I've taken [college level] courses in both Mathematical Psychology, Mathematical Physics, and Mathmatical Biology. Examples galore from existing texts and research for excursions into Physics, Psychology, and Biology. My Math-Psych course was taught by a Sociologist so I suspect that lots of Sociology would be available--but perhaps not appropriate for a high-school level.
And so forth and so forth. And then, of course, there's always those branch of math called Probability and Statistics. Each have available as practical examples stuff from almost any field that you might want to study, even HomeEc and WoodShop! 
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Snake
SFN Addict
USA
2511 Posts |
Posted - 05/19/2002 : 14:29:57 [Permalink]
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I voted for math (--I'm so happy to be in the majority for once!--), but for reasons no one else listed.
My reasoning was: If you could only teach one subject, it would have to be a subject that could somehow encompass most of, if not all, the other subjects.
Art is the subject that uses the knowledge of most other areas. Science and chemisty, Math and geometry, History, Philosophy and psychology, and of course Communication. What other field does one have to know such a variety of information, if he has studied his craft well, as art?
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Computer Org
Skeptic Friend
392 Posts |
Posted - 05/20/2002 : 06:29:19 [Permalink]
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C. Org posted:
I voted for math (--I'm so happy to be in the majority for once!--), but for reasons no one else listed.
My reasoning was: If you could only teach one subject, it would have to be a subject that could somehow encompass most of, if not all, the other subjects.
To which Snake ammended:
Art is the subject that uses the knowledge of most other areas. Science and chemisty, Math and geometry, History, Philosophy and psychology, and of course Communication. What other field does one have to know such a variety of information, if he has studied his craft well, as art?
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Aha! I hadn't thought of art but you're right.
If the catagory "Literature (English)" had been just "Literature", that's the one I would've chosen--maybe even better than either math or art since, if you wanted to, you could dabble with the original texts, (alongside of the translations), and add languages (contemporary and/or classical) into the curriculum.
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Snake
SFN Addict
USA
2511 Posts |
Posted - 05/20/2002 : 18:20:46 [Permalink]
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Aha! I hadn't thought of art but you're right.
Thank you Computer Org. I'm always right! But no one believes me.
There are many occupations where one has to do more than one job. Teachers and policeman come to mind right now. It's difficult to put some things and people in a category. It's not good to 'label' something then it never has a chance to escape from the stereotype.
That's why polls, as this one, don't tell the whole story.
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Lisa
SFN Regular
USA
1223 Posts |
Posted - 05/21/2002 : 01:30:15 [Permalink]
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Excellent! Megan plans to major in Astronomy and Science, and minor in Dance. She's really very talented. I love to watch her Dad and Ed wince when she does a drop split.
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ljbrs
SFN Regular
USA
842 Posts |
Posted - 07/24/2002 : 18:28:21 [Permalink]
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Folks: Rethinking about the leading topic in this thread, I believe that if only one subject were being taught at school, I most certainly would home school my [imaginary] children. Sending anybody to a pathetic school which has only one course of study is bound to create abysmally ignorant students. I would not wish that to happen to my dog (if I had a dog).
Now, about people who are writing English and are having difficulties with it: Pay absolutely no attention to the folks here who make silly and/or obnoxious comments about your mistakes. If they spoke and wrote in many languages, then they would understand the difficulties involved.
You will never, ever find me criticizing anybody else about their language errors. Never!
When it comes to many other languages, je ne comprends pas!
ljbrs
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