Posts by giovanni tiso
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What's in a nutshell why the gitness in defence of the British motherland of language gets my back up. (Besides, it's not as if there's anything approaching a pure, unadultared, "correct" and uniform language in those hallowed isles.)
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Speaking entirely for myself, I'm pretty sure I often use Americanisms (and Australianisms) unwittingly. And I'm entirely comfortable with this particular shortcoming.
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I suspect that Windows still owns that market with your mum and dad shoppers but I'll still feel a wee bit decrepit with the timewarp comment anyway.
Don't take it personally, Mac fans are notoriously a bit sensitive.
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This is beginning to freak me out.
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I'm interested, reading about all this rebellion here, how many people here, cheated on exams?
At exams proper, never. Then again, we only had one exam at the end of three years of intermediate school, and another at the end of five years high school. Did I cheat during oral and written tests that went on all the time and contributed to the final grades of each trimester and year? Yes, all the time. I cheated, helped others cheat, often and ingeniously. But bear in mind, you needed to do that just to survive. And it was victimless - it was never done to get ahead.
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"Arse", Mister Brown; we're not Americans.
Oh, for heaven's sake... You're not one of those gits who writes to the Listener about the faulty (ie non British) pronunciation on National Radio, are you?
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I don't want to knock the list in any way, but seeing it in one block like that really brings home what a depressing year it's (largely) been.
You gotta rofflenui not to cryenui.
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I am multi-lingual and can write for translation (localisation), used to be writing for 12 languages to be localised; please don't curse me, I try.
I'm sure you do a sterling job. It would be quite something if they ever gave you free rein on the illustrations...
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Technical translator here. Which means I spend a solid hour in ten of my time cursing technical writers.
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Someone needs to cross-reference all the people who have claimed loved for their PATs, with those people bitching about standardised testing on the 'Soundbite to Policy' thread, and send them a 'please explain' ;)
I notice your winky face, but hasn't the point been made on the other thread that precisely because we do have standardised national testing at present in both numeracy and literacy, coming in with an agenda to push the testing implies that in the future it's going to be more pervasive and focus the teaching a lot more, which many view as a backward step?