Jayne ,'Serenity'
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
nah, "Spass" (or "Spaß") is related to fun - I've generally heard it more in the sense of a joke, but it looks there are meanings that are closer to simple fun, having fun, enjoyment, and so on. [link] is my favorite online German dictionary when it comes to shades of fairly colloquial speech, but I can't link directly to a search...
(x-post because I was being all wordy while Ginger said it better anyway)
(and while I'm eta'ing, I want glimmer-optik!)
In Germany passports are fun.
Ah -- fun makes more sense. I was thinking maybe there was something -- I can't think of the word, but like colloquial or not-quite-literal -- with the "passport" thing.
It is the new fun in my bath, with the glitter and all!
Oh, right, verbs.
Glimmer-optik uber alles.
Alternate English teacher perspective on new SAT: it's really nice to be able to clearly link writing skills to that oh-so-important test.
What with all the paper writing that my academic college classes required (and even some of the art classes with lecture components), I can see how having some indication of an incoming student's skill level would be very handy.
And, likely, depressing as well.
Alternate English teacher perspective on new SAT: it's really nice to be able to clearly link writing skills to that oh-so-important test.
I agree that writing was shamefully ignored before, but if it's true that SAT writing scores don't correlate well with students' actual writing ability, I don't think it's the right instrument.
signed,
still bitter about tanking the GRE writing section
Oh I agree--I'm not talking about the effectiveness of the test itself; I'm talking about the usefulness of high school English teachers being able to say "You'll need this on the SAT."
I'm talking about the usefulness of high school English teachers being able to say "You'll need this on the SAT."
Oh! In that case, GODS YES. It's an argument that's compelling for them in a way that "you'll need this for the rest of your life even if you imagine you can find a major with no writing once you get to college" just isn't.
(Please, please fix my annoying apostrophe error in that quote? I was clearly possessed temporarily by a high school student.)