Re: Untouchables [Andreas J., please read]

Constructed Languages List <CONLANG@...> writes:
>Whiteboards (and indeed they are so named in English) are common in
>corporations, but I have never seen one in any educational establishment
>in the U.S. (which is by no means to say there are none).

White boards are common in most of the high schools and in most of the
Universities i've been to here in California.

My university makes exclusive use of them because they are less messy and
because they get used by each class that comes in to use a room, there's
never anything on them for very long (mostly eliminating the stained white
board problem). The conference room at my job has one even. Even if they
do get stained, there are cleaners that do a pretty good job at getting
most of it out of the board.

My high school had both blackboards AND white boards. Teachers tended to
use the blackboards more, because the school was built in the 60's and not
every class had the main board areas as whiteboards.

These are sometimes referred to as "dry erase boards" (occasionally) after
the markers used to write on them (Dry erase markers, which make good
permanent markers on porous surfaces :)).