Re: OT More pens (was Re: Phoneme winnowing continues)

On Mon, 9 Jun 2003, Barry Garcia wrote:

> Constructed Languages List <CONLANG@...> writes:
>
> Lets see, well, as obvious as it can be, we learned...
>
> How to write!
Sorry, I misunderstood kendra.

> Yes, they teach that as soon as you get into Preschool (if you go), or
> kindergarten if you start school then. WOW, we're just like every other
> educated first world society then :).
Hm, one doesn't generally learn how to write in Preschool/Kinder here
(Kinder being a synonym for Preschool; what you call Kinder we call grade
prep). :)

> By high school computers had come far enough that teachers actually
> preferred students to write essays on the computer, or the typewriter if
> they could, but if a student chose to write by hand they had to do it in
> cursive (neatly), and in black or blue ball point pen ink. If a student
> printed the ink colors had to be the same. By the time i graduated high
> school however, teachers were requiring that we use a  computer to type
> and print out what we wrote.
Because of cheating, most of you do in Victoria in the last year of high
school is done in class, and most schools don't have access to computers,
so I've had lots of practice writing stuff out by hand. (Though they
didn't care if we printed, and printing's generally more legible,
anyway.)

> I remember a couple years ago having to take the Graduate Writing
> Asessment Requirement, where we had to show we could write about a topic
> at college level (this was to weed out any students who for some reason
> was able to get out of taking remedial English courses), and we had to
> write it by hand. Everyone is so used to the computer that writing for 45
> minutes caused all of our hands to cramp up and us to wonder how the hell
> we wrote papers by hand in High School.
Try 80 minutes :)

> By the way, preschool and kindergarten are about two years additional
> schooling before first grade. You usually start preschool at age 3 or so,
> and then the next year is Kindergarten.
Hmm, well, here we have three year ond kinder and four year old kinder,
neither of which are part of school. Then you have grade prep which is the
first year of school (and you normally turn six during it), followed by
grade one ... grade six, year seven ... year twelve.

--
Tristan                  <kesuari@...>

Yesterday I was a dog. Today I'm a dog. Tomorrow I'll probably still
be a dog. Sigh! There's so little hope for advancement.
                -- Snoopy

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