tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20717535.post5407013734439778283..comments2023-11-02T19:46:44.577+11:00Comments on Fumbling Towards Geekdom: Rejoice!StyleyGeekhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10287051608503966129noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20717535.post-26520112302302181502006-12-05T22:32:00.000+11:002006-12-05T22:32:00.000+11:00I think I saw that "many similarities and many dif...I think I saw that "many similarities and many differences" sentence in one of the quotes used in a NY Times article on essays bought on the internet!Sarahhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10475162455987252531noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20717535.post-78370891050967749932006-12-03T19:24:00.000+11:002006-12-03T19:24:00.000+11:00Exactly :)
Not to mention that there is almost NE...Exactly :)<br /><br />Not to mention that there is almost NEVER a situation in which we want them to say anything about a language's "letters". Yet they persist.<br /><br />You'd think speakers of English, of all languages, would get the difference between <i>sounds</i> and <i>letters</i>. Especially after we taught it to them 98 million times.<br /><br />Grrr.StyleyGeekhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10287051608503966129noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20717535.post-5018782389889398242006-12-03T11:10:00.000+11:002006-12-03T11:10:00.000+11:00Hee, as opposed to the unknown letters of the alph...Hee, as opposed to the unknown letters of the alphabet...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20717535.post-68249398574158980472006-12-03T08:59:00.000+11:002006-12-03T08:59:00.000+11:00We had three "Mac classics" (Mac Jurassics) in our...We had three "Mac classics" (Mac Jurassics) in our hall of residence. Most students were too scared of them, so there was never a queue. <br /><br />Fortunately I was forward-thinking enough to save everything in rtf, so it is still readable.StyleyGeekhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10287051608503966129noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20717535.post-7886826878579543352006-12-03T08:35:00.000+11:002006-12-03T08:35:00.000+11:00Oh, do I feel old! Most of my undergraduate papers...Oh, do I feel old! Most of my undergraduate papers did not make it onto a floppy disk. They were done with a typewriter unless a friend was kind enough to loan an early Mac.~profgrrrrl~https://www.blogger.com/profile/15280731948424317624noreply@blogger.com