FYI is an accepted abbreviation in Webster's 10th Edition.
thk U 4 d FYI
Inara: So. Would you like to lecture me on the wickedness of my ways? Book: I brought you some supper, but if you'd prefer a lecture, I've a few very catchy ones prepped. Sin and hellfire... one has lepers.
'Serenity'
Natter 64: Yes, we still need you
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.
Gudanov - Sep 24, 2009 8:10:50 am PDT #10602 of 30001
Coding and Sleeping
DavidS - Sep 24, 2009 8:11:10 am PDT #10603 of 30001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Has everybody seen the spider silk fabric?
It has amazing properties but takes a million spiders and four years to make.
Clearly we need to make really enormous spiders to take advantage of their silk. Surely nothing could go wrong with Giant Spider Exploitation.
tommyrot - Sep 24, 2009 8:11:28 am PDT #10604 of 30001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
thk U 4 d FYI
Argh! Stop it!
Jessica - Sep 24, 2009 8:12:34 am PDT #10605 of 30001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Surely nothing could go wrong with Giant Spider Exploitation.
You say that now, but what happens when we need their help to combat the Giant Space Fly Invasion?
P.M. Marc - Sep 24, 2009 8:13:15 am PDT #10606 of 30001
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
Also, I bristle at the expectation that teachers should be the ones responsible for coming up with every possible wrong way a question might be answered.
But that's not my expectation. My expectation is that the scoring be spelled out prior to the test. Or,
I'm sorry, but this is bullshit. The student got one answer wrong. Unless the quiz is presented up front as a 100% pass/fail, she should only be penalized for her answer to THAT question. Calling her out for not being "clever" enough just seems mean to me.
What Jess Said again.
A vague disclaimer, after all, is nobody's friend.
Aims - Sep 24, 2009 8:13:29 am PDT #10607 of 30001
Shit's all sorts of different now.
She wasn't called out for not being clever. She was called out for using textspeak. If she had left it blank or put a "?", she would have probably gotten a little talk about paying more attention or asked if she needed to switch seats because she wasn't seeing/hearing/understanding things.
-t - Sep 24, 2009 8:13:36 am PDT #10608 of 30001
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Clearly we need to make really enormous spiders to take advantage of their silk.
I believe that's why we were developing mutant goats who produced spider silk in their milk. Because REALLY nothing can go wrong with spider-goat hybrids.
bon bon - Sep 24, 2009 8:13:40 am PDT #10609 of 30001
It's five thousand for kissing, ten thousand for snuggling... End of list.
Besides, "IDK" barely qualifies as text-speak. It's hardly in the same category as writing like you're Prince ("call me b4 u c him, k?").
Exactly. It's not textspeak, it's not l33t. It's an abbreviation. How is a kid supposed to know that it's an unacceptable acronym?
Jessica - Sep 24, 2009 8:15:03 am PDT #10610 of 30001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
It's not textspeak, it's not l33t. It's an abbreviation. How is a kid supposed to know that it's an unacceptable acronym?
Yup.
Jesse - Sep 24, 2009 8:16:35 am PDT #10611 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Yeah, I mean obviously she was getting that question wrong, but making the rest of the answers not count is what is irksome, I think.
Even if that quiz doesn't matter in the larger scheme of things.